From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hugo =?utf-8?Q?H=C3=B6rnquist?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:00:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20180716210024.GA12312@Saruman> References: <91fce743-6feb-da96-075f-bd1e123f14be@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531774625 3081 195.159.176.226 (16 Jul 2018 20:57:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:57:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 16 22:57:01 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ffAYE-0000dP-IK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 22:56:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffAaJ-0001HG-Rm for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffAaE-0001H7-Ti for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffAaB-0007vr-Ra for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se ([130.236.254.3]:40351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffAaB-0007tC-K1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F8740013 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 22:58:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3035740011; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 22:58:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from Saruman (h-109-128.A163.priv.bahnhof.se [94.254.109.128]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 623F54000B; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 22:58:52 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 130.236.254.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:19602 Archived-At: 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