es3.1:relationship_with_the_es4_specification

[Peter Michaux]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
>
>> Has there been any resolution about how the es3.1 specification will
>> be officially named?
>
> Yes, Ecma TC39 talked about this and the issue was not forcing a version
> step for marketing reasons, rather the lack of dotted edition numbers in
> Ecma standards -- which the TC39 Chair and Ecma Secretary-General agreed
> could be added easily. So the ES3.1 work is aiming to create ECMA-262
> Edition 3.1, and ES4 the 4th Edition.

Well that was mighty accommodating of them.

Thanks,
Peter