FAQ Topic - What does the future hold for ECMAScript? (2008-04-13)

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FAQ Topic - What does the future hold for ECMAScript?
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The ECMAScript Technical Committee is now working on the fourth
edition, the first implementation of which is JScript.NET. It
includes a compiler, allowing you to create standalone JScript
executables.

The fourth edition of ECMAScript will provide new features like
typed variables, and classes. More information can be found at:

http://www.ecmascript.org/

or from microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.jscript
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[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <48***********************@news.sunsite.
dk>, Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:00:00, FAQ server <ja********@dotinternet.be>
posted:

>
The fourth edition of ECMAScript will provide new features like
typed variables, and classes. More information can be found at:

http://www.ecmascript.org/

That page cites
<http://www.ecmascript.org/es4/spec/incompatibilities.pdf>
in which Section 4.1 says that Opera 9.20 parses "2007-01-01T12".
Fortunately, 4.1 does not say that (judging by 9.27) it parses it
correctly - the Hours part is taken as minus minutes.

It's better if the T is replaced by space, as introduced in ISO
8601:2004 -- new Date("2007-01-01 12:08:06 +300") sets Mon, 01 Jan 2007
09:08:06 GMT+0000.

IE 7 accepts "2008-W15-7" but gives "Fri Mar 6 14:00:00 UTC 2009".

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