Can we call it ECMAScript 6, yet?

Brendan Eich brendan at mozilla.com
Mon Sep 19 13:05:16 PDT 2011


On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:

> I'd recommend sticking sticking with "ES.next" as much as possible.  Everything is still subject to change and there remains a lot of opportunity for creating confusion by talking about what is "in" ES6.

ES.next started to grate, for several subjective reasons and one more objective one: that we (TC39) will not add a version number in between if we can help it.

You're right that the safer course is ES.next until we're further along. When is "further along" in your view?

/be


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> Allen
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> On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Rick Waldron wrote:
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>> It appears that ES6 is ok: http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/capitol-js
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>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de> wrote:
>> Or is ECMAScript.next still the better term?
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