Variable statement in ECMA-262
Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. I've diff'ed the Word versions of the ECMA and Mozilla versions and confirmed that aside from the history section there are only formatting and boiler-plate differences. I haven't done a comprehensive diff between them but the formatting in the Mozilla version closely matches the ISO version.
I suggest that for the ES3.1 draft we apply the styles and formatting from the Mozilla/ISO version as they appear to be more mature.
The Mozilla version has a much heavier font with a smaller interline spacing, that I find significantly less pleasant to read (even though I prefer sans-serif for technical documents in general). The lighter font in the 'NOTE' sections is more readable, although the interline spacing is still too small there.
Also the italic and non-italic variants of the font are less clearly distinguished than in the ECMA version.
Please use the Ecma text so that the office staff doesn't have to go back
through and convert to Ecma text again.
Eventually it has to be in ISO style so the sooner you get there the better. It is intended that Ecma Style and ISO style become one at the first of the year.
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Brendan Eich wrote:
It is "see 0" in the copy of the standard available from www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm,
in Adobe Reader 8.1.2.
This the first I've seen of the copy you've just referenced (irritating, because the hyperlinking in that copy would have saved me a lot of time).
How many other differences, other than purely typographical differences (e.g. serif vs sans-serif font), are there between the two copies?