On Aug 3, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Erik Arvidsson wrote:
Discussing whether we want to put setTimeout etc into ECMAScript?
There is a clearly a gap between ES and HTML5. How can we close the
gap? Execution model needs to be standardized.
See current WHATWG work:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html#dom-windowtimers-settimeout
Brendan:
set
setMissing
----------------
setIndexed
getIndexed
Mark: ES4 had List/Vector.
Brendan: Maciej also wanted Set
set covers the use case. It requires more work than setMissing
(setIndexed/getIndexed) but it might be better to start simple.
Brendan:
a = []
a[(1 << 32) - 2] = 42;
a[(1 << 32)] = 43;
print(a[0]) => undefined
a.length => (1 << 32) -1
To clarify this a bit (my whiteboard needs narration) the discussion
was about the trade-offs between a richer catchalls proposal that
specializes hooks for indexed properties, vs. one that has setMissing
and set -- or only set (called on every set). The simpler the
proposal, the harder to optimize: an implementation might have to take
apart the catchall set handler to see whether it is checking for an
"index" identifier, e.g. Such simplification of the catchalls proposal
would slow down non-indexed-property catchalls too.
I recall favoring at least a split between set and setMissing, as
David-Sarah had suggested based on the wiki'ed catchalls proposal's
set/add separation:
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:catchalls
None of this addresses the "climbing the meta ladder" observation/
objection from Waldemar. The mirages approach based on mirrors may --
Mark cited this paper:
http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-tr-07-16.pdf
Brendan:
let o = {x: 0, y: 1} const;
Allen:
var o = {
method f() {}
};
it would do binding.
The punchline is to enhance object initialisers to express attributes
needed for static analysis and optimization, so these are more truly
"object literals", more like ML record type instances.
/be
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