Proposal to add symbol: "hasInstanceStrict"

[Terence M. Bandoian]

Thanks for the clarification.

-Terence Bandoian


On 2/20/2018 7:56 AM, Mike Samuel wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:37 AM, T.J. Crowder 
> <tj.crowder at farsightsoftware.com 
> <mailto:tj.crowder at farsightsoftware.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Terence M. Bandoian
>     <terence at tmbsw.com <mailto:terence at tmbsw.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Wasn't JavaScript originally designed for use in the Netscape
>     > browser?  Maybe it's more correct to say that it was originally
>     > designed for use in web browsers but has been and is being
>     > adapted for other purposes.
>
>     The initial version was done in those 10 fateful days in May 1995
>     (the rush was to stave off competing proposals). Shipped in
>     Netscape Navigator in September 1995, and in Netscape Enterprise
>     Server in December(for server-side scripting). So for three months
>     in 1995, JavaScript was in the wild as a browser-only language;
>     only Brendan Eich or others there at the time can say what the
>     plan for it was.
>
>     Regardless how you want to read that, origins more than 22 years
>     ago don't inform what to use modern JavaScript for in 2018, nor
>     how the language should move forward from here.
>
>
>
> In the hopes that quoting relevant docs can help refocus, the TC39 
> charter <http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC39.htm> says
>
> """
> Scope:
> Standardization of the general purpose, cross platform, vendor-neutral 
> programming language ECMAScript. ...
> """
>
> Contrast that with the webapps working group charter which does make 
> explicit mention of clients and the web:
>
> """
> The scope of the Web Applications Working Group covers the 
> technologies related to developing
> client-side applications on the Web, ...
> """
>
> Any discussions about changing the TC39 charter would probably have to 
> involve the larger ECMA organization
> so it seems off topic to discuss them in a thread devoted to a 
> specific proposal.

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