Re: supporting ES upgrading with a programming pattern repo?

2011-11-11 Thread Claus Reinke
To keep this thread from getting off-track: I am talking about patterns as a common ground between ES.next spec writers and JS.current coders. Focusing on patterns now would help to get JS coders involved in checking current proposals for consistency/edge cases, instead of leaving that burden to

Re: supporting ES upgrading with a programming pattern repo?

2011-11-09 Thread Rick Waldron
> > > Amen to that. JavaScript seems worse than any other language when it comes > to finding correct information on the web. For example, I trust > StackOverflow for many topics, but for JavaScript, it’s often shockingly > wrong. Half-truths are even worse than information that is completely wrong

Fwd: supporting ES upgrading with a programming pattern repo?

2011-11-09 Thread Axel Rauschmayer
xel Rauschmayer > Subject: Re: supporting ES upgrading with a programming pattern repo? > Date: November 10, 2011 1:34:36 GMT+01:00 > To: Claus Reinke > Cc: es-discuss@mozilla.org > > On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:55 , Claus Reinke wrote: > >> Both the committee and JS cod

Re: supporting ES upgrading with a programming pattern repo?

2011-11-09 Thread Axel Rauschmayer
On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:55 , Claus Reinke wrote: > Both the committee and JS coders could profit from examples. Amen to that. JavaScript seems worse than any other language when it comes to finding correct information on the web. For example, I trust StackOverflow for many topics, but for JavaSc

supporting ES upgrading with a programming pattern repo?

2011-11-09 Thread Claus Reinke
Both the committee and JS coders could profit from examples. The committee wants to ensure that their design decisions lead to improvements in language usage, JS coders want to know what those semi-formal proposals mean for their day-to-day use of the language. Both parties want to be sure that t