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Announcement: ES3.1 renamed to ES5

# Mark S. Miller (16 years ago)

I don't want to jump the gun, steal anyone's thunder, nor mix metaphors, but to avoid confusion in some posts I'm about to make, I thought I'd go ahead and announce this now:

At the recent EcmaScript meeting, we decided to renumber EcmaScript 3.1 to become EcmaScript 5. The EcmaScript 3.1 draft standard, once the process is finished, will thus become official as the Fifth Edition. ES4 will continue to be a valid designator for the old proposal with namespaces, etc (currently at www.ecmascript.org/es4/spec/overview.pdf and spec:spec). The general

expectation is that ES-Harmony will become ES6, i.e., the Sixth Edition.

# Mark S. Miller (16 years ago)

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com> wrote:

I don't want to jump the gun, steal anyone's thunder, nor mix metaphors, but to avoid confusion in some posts I'm about to make, I thought I'd go ahead and announce this now:

Apparently, the issue of announcing this numbering change publicly was discussed at the same EcmaScript meeting. Somehow I missed it. My previous post violated the agreed protocol for no good reason. My sincere apologies.

# Zachary Carter (16 years ago)

I honestly thought this was an early April fools.

# P T Withington (16 years ago)

Worse yet, you have inspired my managers to rename OpenLaszlo 4.2.1 to
OpenLaszlo 4.3. Granted we are behind ECMA in our absolute value, but
we make up for it in total decimals. I have just now released
OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.2! Can 4.2.0.2.1 be far behind?

:)