David Bruant wrote:
That's what the spec says, but V8 has implemented something else (and I haven't seen an intention to change this behavior), so what the spec says doesn't really matter.
I missed this until Allen's reply called it out. It is both false (Google people at the TC39 meeting last week said it's a V8 bug that is going to be fixed), and a stinky statement of anti-realpolitik. In the current market, if we don't hew to a consensus standard, anything goes.
Not that everyone would make breaking changes, or any changes, just that from the presence of a bug or long-standing deviation (in this case copied from JavaScriptCore, which has since fixed the deviation!) does *not* mean that "what the spec says doesn't really matter."
Or were you snarking at V8? /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
