LGTM

On 28 January 2015 at 22:10, Caitlin Potter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Contact emails
>
> [email protected]
>
> Spec
>
> https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html sections 9.2.13,
> 14.1.6, 14.1.21, (and others)
>
> Summary
>
> The plan is to implement parsing and baseline code generation for rest
> parameters in non-arrow functions. Work in progress patch[1]
> <https://codereview.chromium.org/816913003/> has been written already.
>
> Motivation
> Aside from the fact that rest parameters have been in the harmony draft
> and are already shipped in browsers, there are some key benefits as far as
> V8 is concerned, and some general developer syntax sugar perks. In
> particular, it can help avoid kBadValueContextForArgumentsValue bailouts
> when attempting to optimize a function which performs an operation such as
> `var params = [].slice.call(arguments, 1)`.
>
> Implementing a baseline implementation of rest parameters is a good start
> for other similar features which build on top of this, including optional
> parameters, and support for the spread operator (and destructuring
> assignment with rest elements).
>
> There is an entry in the feature dashboard[2]
> <https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5937087912083456> and an
> associated launchbug[3]
> <https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2159>
>
> Compatibility Risk
>
> Firefox has shipped this feature, and it is available in the IE preview
> release. According to draft changelogs[4]
> <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:older_es6_drafts>, this
> feature has been essentially unchanged since 2011 (rev 1).
>
>
> Ongoing technical constraints
> Code for supporting rest parameters is fairly minimal, and does not
> introduce much in the way of complexity.
>
> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
> Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
> Yes.
>
> Requesting approval to ship?
>
> No.
>
>
> *[1] Patch *https://codereview.chromium.org/816913003/
>
> *[2] Dashboard entry *
> https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5937087912083456
>
> [3] OWP launch tracking bug
> https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2159
>
> *[4] Draft changelogs*
> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:older_es6_drafts,
> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification_drafts
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