Hey all,
I just read a bit about the ParallelJS project, Typed Objects
(StructType) and was curious if I could implement bindings for v8 today.
Link to wiki document:
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:typed_objects
I realized that I don't know what to do if someone has code like this:
typeof uint8; // "undefined" in ES5
This code will be valid in an ES5 environment, because uint8 is an
undefined reference/variable. But as uint8 is a built-in value type,
what should happen in an ES6 environment?
*My ideas so far:*
Why not offer something like "use es6"; to offer the same behaviour in
supported environments? Are there any plans for such a thing? JIT
implementors could then easily trace if the code was built for ES6 and
optimize their static code analysis heuristics.
I mean, "use strict" is pretty cool, but it has the problem that it will
be available among multiple future versions. "use es6" would be an
identifier a JIT can validate against a specification directly.
Also, you could solve the typeof null; problem with such a thing without
invalidating legacy code.
Cheers,
~Chris
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