I agree that this is a good change, of course, but you really should find out whether this breaks a lot of website first (the fact the developers do not mention this does not mean they are not using it)...
☆*PhistucK* On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Daniel Ehrenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > We don't have any use counters, but the names were rather obscure, and > the ES2015 Promise conventions seem to have stuck more. I have not > heard from any users which were in support of the old Promise API, but > on the other hand, the fact that V8 does not currently meet the ES2015 > Promise specification is a frequent complaint from both users and > frameworks. There is no way to support both ES2015 Promise semantics > per spec and Promise.prototype.chain at the same time. > > Dan > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:57 PM, PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are there any use counters for them? Did you check whether they are used > in > > the wild? > > (The HTTP archive can help here, or any internal Google index searching > you > > may have) > > > > > > ☆PhistucK > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:50 AM, 'Daniel Ehrenberg' via blink-dev > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> V8 had added a few functions for manipulating Promises which didn't > >> make it into the ES2015 standard, namely Promise.prototype.chain, > >> Promise.accept and Promise.defer. ES2015 specifies Promises in a way > >> which is incompatible with some of these methods, and none of them > >> appear to be on track to be included in a standard the future. > >> > >> I have added a flag to V8 and Chrome (--js-flags=--promise-extra) to > >> retain the current additional promise features. I intend to flip the > >> flag off by default in general within a few days, with the aim of V8 > >> version 4.9 branching without additional Promise functions. > >> > >> Dan > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "blink-dev" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to [email protected]. > >> > > > -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
