[whatwg] [URL] DOM API Feedback

Allen Wirfs-Brock allen at wirfs-brock.com
Mon Nov 19 10:26:01 PST 2012


On Nov 19, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> On 11/19/12 11:20 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> To a first approximation, they shouldn't be.  ES6 classes desugar into
>> functions and prototypes.
> 
> Hmm.  They didn't completely at some point, but maybe something got changed since I last looked.

They do now, see https://people.mozilla.com/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-13.5 

> 
> "first approximation" is not great if we actually expect people to implement stuff interoperably, not just interoperably to a first approximation.  ;)

Classes and everything else in ES6 will be precisely specified within interoperability being a paramount goal 

Allen






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