Re: Forbid implementations from extending the RegExp grammar.

2015-07-06 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I think it would be more worthwhile of we tried to draw a compatibility boundary. Taking perlre as a baseline, for example, are there additional characters we should escape in `RegExp.escape` so that implementations (and the language itself) could add more perlre features without breaking

Re: Forbid implementations from extending the RegExp grammar.

2015-07-06 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
On Jul 5, 2015, at 10:56 PM, Benjamin Gruenbaum wrote: So, following work on RegExp.escape [1] I found out that implementations may extend the regular expression grammar in JavaScript [2]. However, when asking esdiscuss and Stack Overflow about it [2][3] it doesn't look like any

Getting SIMD.js into the TC39 repository

2015-07-06 Thread Daniel Ehrenberg
Hi Brian, ES-Discuss, The SIMD.js spec and polyfill still lives in John McCutchan's GitHub account. How can we transfer this to the TC39 account in accordance with ECMA's requirements? Thanks, Dan ___ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org

Re: Forbid implementations from extending the RegExp grammar.

2015-07-06 Thread Benjamin Gruenbaum
This isn't really about `RegExp.escape` as an issue. We can always extend `RegExp.escape` when we make additions to the RegExp grammar as a standard that would not be a problematic issue since we can keep both parts in sync relatively easily. On the other hand currently implementations are

Re: treated as a module if ...

2015-07-06 Thread John Barton
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Domenic Denicola d...@domenic.me wrote: To be explicit: there is no way to look at a string of JavaScript text and tell whether it should be treated as a module or a script. In many instances the same string can be treated as both. The decision is made by