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allenwb
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About allenwb
Dreaming and building the future of software; Project Editor of the ECMAScript 2015 Language Specification; Reformed Smalltalker.
Sherwood Oregon USA wirfs-brock.com/allen
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Comment #23423177
Dan Ingalls talks about Notetaker/Smalltalk-78 in his forthcoming HOPL 4 paper which should be available within the next two weeks. There were only a few Notetaker machines built a…
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Comment #15645300
That document is an incomplete working DRAFT for the next edition of the ECMAScript standard. Don't assume that the current snapshot is feature complete.
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Comment #2472953
Interestingly, the 2nd argument to Object.create was specifically designed (by me) so that an object's "shape" could be statically determined. If the descriptor is all literals (th…