http://wiki.ecmascript.org/ 2012-05-16T00:10:39+01:00 http://wiki.ecmascript.org/ http://wiki.ecmascript.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-05-16T00:06:54+01:00 Erik Arvidsson (arv@72.14.229.81) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:observe&do=diff&1337126814 UI frameworks often want to provide an ability to databind objects in a datamodel to UI elements. A key component of databinding is to track changes to the object being bound. Today, JavaScript framework which provide databinding typically create ob... text/html 2012-05-12T21:28:49+01:00 Dave Herman (dherman@99.186.240.217) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:module_loaders&do=diff&1336858129 This proposal describes a dynamic API for loading modules in controlled and selectively isolated contexts. Loaders also provide reflective methods for querying information about those contexts. Every host environment comes with a built-in system loa... text/html 2012-05-05T00:01:43+01:00 Allen Wirfs-Brock (allen@69.64.236.244) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification_drafts&do=diff&1336176103 This page contains a historical record of working draft of the ES.next specification prepared by the project editor. Error in the current draft should be reported as bugs at bugs.ecmascript.org Current Working Draft May 4 , 2012 Draft doc pdf wi... text/html 2012-05-04T05:04:44+01:00 Norbert Lindenberg (norbert@50.0.136.202) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=globalization:specification_drafts&do=diff&1336107884 This page contains a historical record of working drafts of the ECMAScript Internationalization API specification prepared by the project editor. Errors in the current draft should be reported as bugs at bugs.ecmascript.org. Current Working Draft... text/html 2012-05-03T18:54:56+01:00 Tom Van Cutsem (tomvc@83.101.74.19) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:reflect_api&do=diff&1336071296 We propose a new standard module “@reflect” that exports the following properties: module "@reflect"   function Proxy(target, handler) function VirtualHandler()   // each of the following functions corresponds /... text/html 2012-05-03T18:14:58+01:00 Tom Van Cutsem (tomvc@83.101.74.19) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proto_climbing_refactoring&do=diff&1336068898 Goal: in the internal [[Get]], [[Put]] and [[HasProperty]] methods for Objects, remove the dependency on [[GetProperty]] for walking the prototype chain. Motivation: mainly because this dependency is made visible by proxies, and the interaction is ... text/html 2012-05-01T17:53:12+01:00 Allen Wirfs-Brock (allen@69.64.236.244) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:strawman&do=diff&1335894792 This ‘strawman’ namespace is intended to contain proposals for the “ES-Harmony” language that are not yet approved harmony proposals, and to clearly separate them from the legacy ES4 pages. Proposals Concurrency, Asynchron... text/html 2012-05-01T17:51:13+01:00 Allen Wirfs-Brock (allen@69.64.236.244) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:terminology&do=diff&1335894673 In prior versions of the ECMAScript specification the term host object has been used both to designate objects, not defined by the ECMAScript specification, that are provided by the environment that is hosting the ECMAScript implementation. Such obj... text/html 2012-04-29T18:44:43+01:00 Mark S. Miller (markm@173.164.252.202) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:concurrency&do=diff&1335725083 On both the browser and the server, JavaScript’s de-facto concurrency model is increasingly “shared nothing” communicating event loops. JavaScript event loops within the browser (both frames and workers) send asynchronous messages ... text/html 2012-04-29T01:43:29+01:00 Dave Herman (dherman@67.180.182.145) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:value_objects&do=diff&1335663809 To add new immutable datatypes that are identified up to their contents rather than by reference in the heap. This allows us to add new integer types such as int64 and bignum without extending the set of typeof tags. It also allows us to extend th... text/html 2012-04-28T19:35:50+01:00 Dave Herman (dherman@99.186.240.217) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:modules_standard&do=diff&1335641750 This provides a modularized version of the standard library. Contents standard prelude module "@std"   // standard constants and functions NaN Infinity undefined eval parseInt parseFloat isNaN isFinite decodeURI encodeURI decodeURIComponent... text/html 2012-04-28T19:34:54+01:00 Dave Herman (dherman@99.186.240.217) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:private_name_objects&do=diff&1335641694 Similar to unique string values and names; just the runtime construct, no syntax. Overview This strawman introduces a new kind of object called a name object, which can be used to add private properties to any object in a strongly encapsulated wa... text/html 2012-04-24T21:17:33+01:00 Brendan Eich (brendan@63.245.220.240) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:iterators&do=diff&1335302253 The for-in loop is ECMAScript’s convenient mechanism for doing iteration. However, several factors combine to make it inconvenient for general-purpose iteration. for-in loops iterate over the names of enumerable properties. However propertie... text/html 2012-04-19T00:22:15+01:00 Allen Wirfs-Brock (allen@69.64.236.244) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:object_model_reformation&do=diff&1334794935 Summary: The typical usage of object properties to define dynamic data collections in ECMAScript conflates concepts from the application data domain (the data manipulated by the program) and the program definition domain (the actual program text) in... text/html 2012-04-02T16:13:03+01:00 Dave Herman (dherman@67.106.254.3) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:data_parallelism&do=diff&1333383183 This proposal describes a gentle extension to EcmaScript that will enable access to the parallelism found in all modern processors. Goals The goal of this proposal is to enable data-parallelism in web applications. Browser applications and in par... text/html 2012-04-01T17:22:46+01:00 Brendan Eich (brendan@69.181.252.168) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:arrow_function_syntax&do=diff&1333300966 Extend AssignmentExpression and define ArrowFunctionExpression: AssignmentExpression : ArrowFunctionExpression ... ArrowFunctionExpression : ArrowFormalParameters => [lookahead ∉ { "{" }] AssignmentExpression ArrowFormalParamete... text/html 2012-03-31T20:36:20+01:00 Brendan Eich (brendan@69.181.252.168) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:egal&do=diff&1333226180 An egal function simply makes available the internal SameValue function from section 9.12 of the ES5 spec. If two values are egal, then they are not observably distinguishable. Egal can be coded as Object.is in ES5 as follows: Object.defineProperty&... text/html 2012-03-28T19:46:38+01:00 Luke Hoban (lukeh@216.239.55.138) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:more_math_functions&do=diff&1332963998 Current spec proposal: Candidate Library Extensions Spec 3/28/2011 doc pdf Older assets At the July 2011 TC39 meeting, we reviewed the spreadsheet below and the recommendation it contained for the new Math libraries to include with ES6. The wor... text/html 2012-03-28T17:37:17+01:00 Dave Herman (dherman@216.239.55.138) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:bind_operator&do=diff&1332956237 Native syntax for f.bind(self): const hasOwnProperty = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty; function hasOwn(obj, key) { return obj::hasOwnProperty(key); } Calling a superclass constructor: function MySubClass(x, y, z)... text/html 2012-03-28T15:22:26+01:00 Luke Hoban (lukeh@12.130.126.60) http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:string_extras&do=diff&1332948146 Current spec proposal: Candidate Library Extensions Spec 3/28/2011 doc pdf String extras A few basic conveniences that many languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Ruby) have by default are missing in the ECMAScript string library. NOTE: all the &l...