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From: "Hugo Hörnquist" <hugo@lysator.liu.se>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:00:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180716210024.GA12312@Saruman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHgd1hE5gv8Ua_hAY-iOgcUcagqCuT9sxVW9jGZx9fRx6Fy_fQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 11:49:28PM +1000, William ML Leslie wrote:

> I guess javascript is the exception to that rule, because Guile's
> javascript is probably the closest thing to a conforming ES4
> implementation out there.

Since when is that that the case? The manual page for
ECMAScript (6.24.3) states:

> The goal was to support ECMAScript version 3.1, a
> relatively small language, but the implementor was
> completely irresponsible and got distracted by other
> things before finishing the standard library, and even
> some bits of the syntax.

Which make it sound like that implementation is far from
good.

-- 
hugo



      reply	other threads:[~2018-07-16 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-14  2:53 multi-lingual guile: language strictness Matt Wette
2018-07-14  2:57 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-14 13:53   ` William ML Leslie
2018-07-14 16:22     ` Hans Åberg
2018-07-14 18:45       ` Matt Wette
2018-07-14 19:09         ` Hans Åberg
2018-07-14 19:24     ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-14  7:04 ` tomas
2018-07-14 13:49 ` William ML Leslie
2018-07-16 21:00   ` Hugo Hörnquist [this message]

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