Fwd: ES3.1 Draft: Array generics

[Garrett Smith]

Hello Pratap,

Were you genuinely interested in feedback?

Is Function described by Type in ES3.1?

Are top-level generics part of the spec (Array.forEach)?

You or one of your colleagues signed me up for the ES3.1 list, then,
apparently, after I replied directly to you, decided to ignore the
reply and unsubscribed me from the list. I can't be bothered to
resubscribe myself. Posted to ES4 discuss.

Garrett

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On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/19 Pratap Lakshman (VJ#SDK) <pratapl at microsoft.com>:

> It would be sufficient and more correct to say: "throw a TypeError"
> rather than "throw a TypeError exception"
>

So it should probably read one of:-

1) If callbackfn does not implement [[Call]], throw a TypeError.
2) If callbackfn is not a function, throw a TypeError

There is also an absence of top-level generics:-

Array.forEach

- This avoids having to write:-

[].forEach.call( nodeList, fun );

Note on host objects:
Whether the forEach function can be applied successfully to a host
object is implementation -dependent.
- support Array Generics for host object, for example, a DOM NodeList
in abstract view.

[].sort.call( ul.getElementsByTagName("li"), byName );

Garrett

> Regards,
>
> Garrett
>
>> pratap
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