Norbert, Can you explain why you think these should be functions on String rather than part of a more general character classification facility that might be associated with some more specialized object? The latter approach would seem to be to have modularity advantages at both the implementation and usage level.
Allen On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:35 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: > ECMAScript is used to implement a variety of tools that check code for > conformance with the ECMAScript specification, minimize it, perform other > transformations, or generate ECMAScript code. These tools have to be able to > recognize ECMAScript identifiers, taking the identifier specification and the > underlying Unicode specification into consideration - not quite easy given > the ever-growing Unicode character set. > > While looking at support for Unicode character properties in general, I > realized that this use case is shaped differently from others, fundamental to > ECMAScript, and amenable to a fairly simple solution, and so there's now a > strawman: > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:identifier_identification > > I'd like to discuss this at next week's TC 39 meeting, but also invite > earlier comments. > > Thanks, > Norbert > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
