Le 03/08/2012 12:58, Allen Wirfs-Brock a écrit :
substr is in Annex B, which in ES5.1 is an informative annex. In ES6, the content of Annex B will be optional normative. Required for web user agents, but optional for other hosts.
Ok. Is it planned to extend ES6-test262 scope to include tests for Annex B?
I'm wondering what's the downside of adding it in the normative part of the spec. It's in every browser, it's in Node.js, it's likely to be in MongoDB JS (I haven't tested, but it's based on SpiderMonkey 1.7, and soon V8), likely in all the mostly used JS platforms (which are often based on browser-included JS interpreters). It's likely that platforms that support ES6 without substr will suffer from interoperability from libraries/modules that use it and rely on it and will be forced to add substr anyway.
I guess I should ask the question: Are there known and used platforms that do not include substr? If the answer is no, then it probably should get in the spec for the sake of interoperability.
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