es3.1:relationship_with_the_es4_specification
On Jul 6, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
Has there been any resolution about how the es3.1 specification will be officially named?
Yes, Ecma TC39 talked about this and the issue was not forcing a
version step for marketing reasons, rather the lack of dotted edition
numbers in Ecma standards -- which the TC39 Chair and Ecma Secretary-
General agreed could be added easily. So the ES3.1 work is aiming to
create ECMA-262 Edition 3.1, and ES4 the 4th Edition.
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:
On Jul 6, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
Has there been any resolution about how the es3.1 specification will be officially named?
Yes, Ecma TC39 talked about this and the issue was not forcing a version step for marketing reasons, rather the lack of dotted edition numbers in Ecma standards -- which the TC39 Chair and Ecma Secretary-General agreed could be added easily. So the ES3.1 work is aiming to create ECMA-262 Edition 3.1, and ES4 the 4th Edition.
Well that was mighty accommodating of them.
Thanks, Peter
It has been over a year since the following wiki page has been updated.
es3.1:relationship_with_the_es4_specification
Has there been any resolution about how the es3.1 specification will be officially named?
Given that
es4 intends to be capable of running es3 programs
es3.1 intended to be a stepping stone directly on the path from es3 to es4
it seems to make sense that es3.1 would officially be "ECMA-262 revision 4" and then es4 would be "ECMA-262 revision 5".
Peter