begun merging into ES6 drafts. • Linking semantics written in pseudocode, transcribing to Word this week. • Evaluation and loading semantics implemented in polyfill, next on my list to spec. • @jorendorff hacked us up a tool to convert literate Markdown comments to Word.
updates. • Will see more progress in Allen’s updates. • @jorendorff working towards getting polyfill functional as self-hosted implementation for Firefox Nightly builds.
Absent any surprise ambiguities, further debate is unnecessary and unwise. • Trickiest part of loading semantics involves concurrent loading scenarios, which @jorendorff did great work on. Now needs implementation testing. • Event-loop semantics would ideally be in ES6 but it’s cleanly factored out so we can live without.
async. Allows e.g. remote translation/compilation/analysis. • Separated translation hook from Function/ indirect eval hooks. • Eliminated the complexity of loader “inheritance.” Nested virtualization can easily be implemented explicitly via composition.
away with controversial and complex feature; door still open for lexical modules. • Bundling belongs at browser layer, and was problematic for cross-origin loading anyway. • Bundling formats still implementable...
with Yehuda, Anne, Alex, and others on a Web spec proposal. • Not blocking ES6 deadline, but needs to start now so we can p(r)ol(l)yfill and experiment.
sync vs. async entry points in HTML. Ecma-262 will simply specify two top-level non-terminals, one that allows imports and one that doesn’t • Need for module linking/registration with on- demand execution • Discuss integration with other Web standards orgs