ES3.1 Draft: String generics

[Erik Arvidsson]

Mike,

We are saying the same thing.  Maybe it is my escaping that is
confusing you.  Mine also has the length 6.  My example is using a JS
string literal where yours does not.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:12, Mike Shaver <mike.shaver at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Erik Arvidsson
>  <erik.arvidsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > The quote method needs more specification.  It needs to escape a lot
>  >  more characters than just single and double quotes.  The basic rule is
>  >  that String.prototype.quote should return a string that would be a
>  >  valid string literal for that string.
>  >
>  >  For example:
>  >
>  >  "a\nb".quote() => "\"a\\nb\""
>
>  I would expect that
>
>  "a\nb".quote()
>
>  would produce
>
>  "a\nb" (a string with 6 characters)
>
>  and that's what Firefox implements, along with a toplevel uneval that
>  works on strings, arrays, objects, etc..  I think it would be very
>  confusing for us to convert single newline characters to an escaped
>  backslash and 'n'!
>
>  Having a way to escape metacharacters could be valuable, but I think
>  much more valuable for the set of metacharacters that are meaningful
>  to regular expressions.  I think that's provided by more toolkits than
>  .quoteQuotes, and is harder to get right.
>
>  Mike
>



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erik