I wouldn't worry about feature creep in terms of strict mode
forbidding certain identifiers in unambiguous grammatical positions.
Some implementations already have to work harder if arguments is the
left-hand side of assignment within a function. Such parser tweaks are
also easier to get right that the complicated mix of static and
runtime checking required to implement eval and arguments in ES3 today.
Feature creep would be adding any more methods to Object, e.g.
(although IIRC there's a case to be made by Allen for
Object.hashcode ;-)).
More on an eval issue that I misremembered at the January meeting in a
separate post. It and things like it we don't know about are the
bigger threats to schedule than the strict mode refinements that
amount to making certain identifiers reserved.
/be
On Feb 12, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Mark Miller wrote:
I'd be happier with the restriction than without.
2009/2/12 Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen.wirfs-br...@microsoft.com>
Now that we have decided that all declarations of the identifier
"eval" are banned from strict code a related question has come up
from one of the implementers of our strict mode prototype
implementation. Why does Es3.1 still allow assignment to the
identifier "eval" within strict code? That does seem like a
logical extension of the arguments that convinced us to ban strict
mode eval declaration. Does anyone have a reason why such an
assignment would be a reasonable thing.
Adding that assignment restriction is a bit of a feature creep but
something that is probably manageable in the time we have left if
the consensus is that it makes sense to do.
Thoughts?
Allen
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