On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de> wrote:

>
> On 14 Feb 2015, at 22:26, Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de>
> wrote:
>
>> But it’s not an error! Either of the following two classes fail later,
>> when you instantiate them, but not right away.
>>
>> ```js
>> const X = null;
>> class C extends X {}
>>
>> class D extends null {}
>> ```
>>
>
> I didn't mean to imply an early error. The "extends X" can only produce a
> dynamic error, so I'm arguing that "extends null" should do the same.
>
>
> When I say “early”, I don’t mean “static”, I mean: dynamically, when the
> class definition is evaluated, not later when the class is instantiated via
> `new`.
>
> I’m not seeing a dynamic error in the spec when the `extends` clause is
> null (step 6e):
> https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-runtime-semantics-classdefinitionevaluation
>


That's a good suggestion. AFAICT, it would be an improvement. I don't see
any downside.

Allen?



>
>
>> Or dynamically switching from "derived" to "base" (but you seem to be
>> saying that doing this dynamically is not a good idea).
>>
>
> Dynamically switching from derived to base does not work, because our
> super semantics depends statically on the difference.
>
>
> Ah, checked statically, I wasn’t aware! Hadn’t found the check beforehand.
> Searched some more and it is indeed there, in 14.5.1.
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
> axel at rauschma.de
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>
>


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    Cheers,
    --MarkM
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de> wrote:

> I’m not seeing a dynamic error in the spec when the `extends` clause is
> null (step 6e):
> https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-runtime-semantics-classdefinitionevaluation


That's a good suggestion. AFAICT, it would be an improvement. I don't see
any downside.

Allen?