On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Shijun He <hax.sfo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Right, and map["delete"](key) works fine. The future of the language
>> itself should not be impaired by a browser that has an expiration date.
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> No, it does NOT work. Because you can't ask all module/library authors
> write like that.
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Submit patches—libraries intended for use in IE8 should be made to support
that platform, it's that simple.


> And that means even such modules should be work in old browsers with
> ES6-shim, they actually fail just because a simple name problem.
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> And, ES6 and any future version of this language already impaired by
> legacy browsers. For example, typeof null MUST be 'object'.
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Wrong—that impairment has nothing to do with browsers, but with _existing_
code that makes incorrect assumptions (or none at all) about the return
value of typeof.

Rick
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Shijun He <hax.sfo at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, it does NOT work. Because you can't ask all module/library authors
> write like that.

Submit patches—libraries intended for use in IE8 should be made to support
that platform, it's that simple.

> And, ES6 and any future version of this language already impaired by
> legacy browsers. For example, typeof null MUST be 'object'.

Wrong—that impairment has nothing to do with browsers, but with _existing_
code that makes incorrect assumptions (or none at all) about the return
value of typeof.