> On 22 Jan 2015, at 10:29 , Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org> wrote: > > ECMA-357 (E4X) pioneered informative-first prose sections, not found in > ECMA-262 Ed. 3, and as a direct consequence, had too many imprecise or even > inaccurate informative notes, which (turns out) were misread as normative, or > simply otherwise caused confusion.
OTOH, I find rationales and complete terminology very important for talking about and understanding the spec (but I do know that that would incur even more work). At the moment, reading the spec feels like figuring out undocumented source code; rationales have to be deduced by going though the TC39 meeting notes and the es-discuss archives (or, in the case of proxies, Tom’s papers). A companion book to ECMA-262 may be the ideal solution, but the problem is that the audience/market for such a book is small. And Allen’s plate must be full enough as it is. -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de rauschma.de
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