Summary of i18n ad hoc group meeting - 21st March 2011

[Nebojša Ćirić]

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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