Summary of i18n ad hoc group meeting - 21st March 2011
Nebojša Ćirić
cira at google.com
Tue Mar 22 08:18:08 PDT 2011
So if we have something like this:
LocaleInfo.Collator.prototype.compare = function(a, b) {
...
};
How do you specify it's bound by default?
21. март 2011. 18.57, Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com> је написао/ла:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Axel Hecht <axel at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> We had discussed that. Would it make sense to specify that coll.compare
>> would actually be a bound method? That's one of the things that had a little
>> "oh, no good any way we do this", as Erik wouldn't know of any example we'd
>> follow by defining a method on an object to be bound by default.
>>
>
> I'm in favor of bound by default. I don't know of any examples in ES5, but
> it's easy to specify.
>
>
>
>>
>> Axel
>>
>>
>> On 21.03.11 18:26, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Nebojša Ćirić <cira at google.com
>>> <mailto:cira at google.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, I didn't get the difference first time around.
>>>
>>> Also, current fix is to do:
>>>
>>> array.sort(function(a,b) { return coll.compare(a,b); });
>>>
>>>
>>> Why not
>>>
>>> array.sort(coll.compare.bind(coll))
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 21. март 2011. 17.31, Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvidsson at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:erik.arvidsson at gmail.com>> је написао/ла:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 17:28, Nebojša Ćirić <cira at google.com
>>> <mailto:cira at google.com>> wrote:
>>> > Started implementation of collator in Chrome and hit a problem:
>>> > var coll = locale.collator();
>>> > array.sort(coll.compare);
>>> > Compare method gets bound to the undefined or global object
>>> at the call
>>> > site. Erik mentioned that this problem will be solved in
>>> Harmony by passing
>>> > additional "this" parameter to for-each and likes. We would
>>> like to propose
>>> > extending this syntax to the sort method too.
>>>
>>> Not exactly. I said that the Array methods on ES5 already pass in
>>> an
>>> optional this parameter and maybe we *could* do the same for
>>> Array.prototype.sort in Harmony.
>>>
>>> > We discussed each part of the API in order to get detailed
>>> parameters of
>>> > each constructor and method.
>>> > General:
>>> >
>>> > Add options property to each class that would give you actual
>>> value for the
>>> > user parameters. For example, if user asked for islamic
>>> calendar, and we
>>> > only have islamic-civil, we set calendar property to
>>> islamic-civil. Allows
>>> > developer to iterate until satisfied with the result.
>>> > Use Unicode identifier vs. BCP47 in the API
>>> >
>>> > Collator:
>>> >
>>> > numeric - specifies numeric sort (9 comes before 12)
>>> > ignoreVariants - ignore all of case, width and kana
>>> > ignoreWidth, ignoreCase and ignoreKana - subvariants we may
>>> implement to
>>> > fine tune the behavior
>>> > ignoreAccents - ignore accents
>>> > ignoreSymbols - ignore punctuation and symbols
>>> > variant - phonebook, ... - string
>>> >
>>> > NumberFormat:
>>> >
>>> > Allow patterns to specify grouping, currency symbol position
>>> and sign
>>> > location
>>> > Start with ICU patterns and see if they work for everybody
>>> > Don't support overrides for grouping separator and decimal
>>> point for now
>>> > Specify both currencySymbol and currencyCode as override
>>> >
>>> > DateTimeFormatSymbols:
>>> >
>>> > Added Era and day period methods (AM/PM)
>>> > Moved all methods to DateTimeFormat class
>>> > Remove DTFSymbols class
>>> >
>>> > DateTimeFormat:
>>> >
>>> > Specify calendar names better (move work to Unicode/LDML and
>>> point to their
>>> > document).
>>> > Allow short/long dateType to get value from the system or
>>> cloud.
>>> > .options[skeleton] should contain best match for the given
>>> skeleton
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Nebojša Ćirić
>>> >
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