On Sep 5, 2013, at 10:40 , Mathias Bynens <mathias at qiwi.be> wrote:

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> On 5 Sep 2013, at 19:37, Norbert Lindenberg <ecmascript at lindenbergsoftware.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 5, 2013, at 1:06 , Mathias Bynens <mathias at qiwi.be> wrote:
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>>> On 26 Aug 2013, at 04:08, Norbert Lindenberg <ecmascript at lindenbergsoftware.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Aug 24, 2013, at 23:43 , Mathias Bynens <mathias at qiwi.be> wrote:
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>>>>> I would suggest adding something like `String.isIdentifier` which accepts a multi-symbol string or an array of code points to the strawman. Seems useful to be able to do `String.isIdentifier('foobar')`
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>>>> What would be the use case(s) for that?
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>>> Tools like http://mothereff.in/js-escapes.
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>> I see nothing on that page about identifiers.
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> Sorry, wrong link. I meant this one: http://mothereff.in/js-variables

That's a nice page! But I doubt that developers will create such tools often enough to make a convenience function in the standard worthwhile. I proposed isIdentifierStart and isIdentifierPart because recognizing identifier characters across ECMAScript and Unicode versions requires large data tables; implementing the unescaping rules and filtering reserved words isn't all that hard.

Norbert

On Sep 5, 2013, at 10:40 , Mathias Bynens <mathias at qiwi.be> wrote:

> Sorry, wrong link. I meant this one: http://mothereff.in/js-variables

That's a nice page! But I doubt that developers will create such tools often enough to make a convenience function in the standard worthwhile. I proposed isIdentifierStart and isIdentifierPart because recognizing identifier characters across ECMAScript and Unicode versions requires large data tables; implementing the unescaping rules and filtering reserved words isn't all that hard.