Fwd: Renaming ECMAScript 4 for the final standard?

2008-03-23 Thread Lemonade Smith
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Don't feed the trolls.) > If that was in response to me, I'd rather not be called a troll and I don't really understand how my post was troll-like but nevertheless I apologise if it appeared that way - I wasn't aware my s

Re: Renaming ECMAScript 4 for the final standard?

2008-03-23 Thread Brendan Eich
On Mar 23, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote: > 2008/3/23 Lemonade Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> The proposed ECMAScript 4 standard contains very different >> paradigms to the >> current JavaScript/ECMAScript standard. In my view, it is the >> equivalent of >> the changes between C and C+

Re: performance of OO dispatch in inner loops

2008-03-23 Thread ToolmakerSteve98
From: "Brendan Eich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [responding to David Teller's post in response to some questions I raised] > You really should read the papers, and Andreas Gal's blog. Runtime > types are only one of many kinds of information available to runtime > optimizers. Tracing loops allows hoisting

Re: Renaming ECMAScript 4 for the final standard?

2008-03-23 Thread Mark S. Miller
2008/3/23 Lemonade Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The proposed ECMAScript 4 standard contains very different paradigms to the > current JavaScript/ECMAScript standard. In my view, it is the equivalent of > the changes between C and C++ - it's designed largely to be a revolution > rather than a mere e

Re: Array Generics and null

2008-03-23 Thread Garrett Smith
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Mike Shaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Garrett Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspected that. It is the problem with Google Mail, which exhibited > > a bug in Firefox. > > Sorry, do you mean that this is caused by Arra

Re: Array Generics and null

2008-03-23 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Garrett Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspected that. It is the problem with Google Mail, which exhibited > a bug in Firefox. Sorry, do you mean that this is caused by Array.generic behaviour? I'm lost as to what bug you're talking about (bug number?). Mik

Renaming ECMAScript 4 for the final standard?

2008-03-23 Thread Lemonade Smith
The proposed ECMAScript 4 standard contains very different paradigms to the current JavaScript/ECMAScript standard. In my view, it is the equivalent of the changes between C and C++ - it's designed largely to be a revolution rather than a mere evolution of the current ECMAScript/JavaScript standard

Re: Array Generics and null

2008-03-23 Thread Garrett Smith
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Garrett Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspected that. It is the problem with Google Mail, which exhibited > a bug in Firefox. > > Use case: > 0) hit reply > 1) click 'send' > 2) hit 'stop' > 3) click 'reply to all' and watch the To: field change. 3.5):

Fwd: Array Generics and null

2008-03-23 Thread Garrett Smith
I suspected that. It is the problem with Google Mail, which exhibited a bug in Firefox. Use case: 0) hit reply 1) click 'send' 2) hit 'stop' 3) click 'reply to all' and watch the To: field change. 4) watch Gmail send a mail *instantly*. Gmail displays headers in the 'show details' for all recipien