Re: natively negotiating sync vs. async...without callbacks

2010-12-09 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
It might surprise some who know me to hear this, but I agree with Dave on this. There's a huge gap between the single-frame mechanism and going the whole hog. Going all out does buy you some expressive power, but at the cost of complicating everything. If the simple mechanism gives you most of

on semantics, specification, metacircularity, \JS, etc.

2010-05-21 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
The recent thread about specifications and meta-circularity devolved into a discussion about semantics. Before one can argue whether or not the standards committee should invest effort in helping out (much less incorporating) a semantics, it helps to understand what form a *useful* semantics can