ECMA 262 Technical Meeting
March 20th, 1998
Microsoft Building 28
Present:
Andrew Clinick (Microsoft)
Chris Weight (Microsoft)
Clayton Lewis (Netscape)
Herman Venter (Microsoft)
Mike McCabe(Netscape)
Mike Ksar (HP)
Mike Cowlishaw (IBM)
Norris Boyd(Netscape)
Rok Yu (Microsoft)
Waldemar Horwat (Netscape)
Document formats and storage:
The current ftp sites are proving difficult to use and manage, impacting the effectiveness of the group. To address this issue the following action items were agreed:
- IBM will set up an ftp site
- Microsoft to provide word97 for Netscape
- doc will goto word97 format
NSCP will look into separating proposals from the doc or to at least make it clear which is a new proposal. All new proposals should be as separate docs to avoid any confusion between existing agreed on specifications and new proposals.
Date and place for next meeting
10:00 til 4:00 May 15th @ Netscape
June 15/16th meeting will remain at Sun
V1 comments
Deadine for comments to Mike and Jan is April 2nd
Conformance could be an issue since ISO will require international standards. This needs to be sorted out for June ISO submission.
Unicode is OK, as is UCS-2.
Martin Duesrt comments
%U recommend that people who need to communicate between different specs then they need to write a translation layer
Clayton will write up the groups response to the comment and get it to Karl for inclusion in all the comments
V2 proposals
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Label Break
The group went through all the proposed changes for V2 in particular the following sections:
5.2 agreed
8.9 agreed
12 - agreed
12.1 there a number of bugs which need to be fixed
12.2 essential function agreed
12.3 agreed
12.4 subject to 5.2 agreed
12.5 agreed
12.6 based on V2 spec so has do while agreed
12.7 agreed if the semantics are different from java then will change to that
12.8 agreed if the semantics are different from java then will change to that
12.9 agreed
12.10 Based on V1 spec so discussion required
12.11 agreed
12.12 agreed
12.13 throw agreed
12.14 try requires discussion
14 agreed
15.1.2 requires discussion
Netscape will look into the implementation details of finally and in particular the return values MSFT will send round details of Win32 structured exeption handling
unicode
Mike Ksar to provide text for unicode information
%u can be accomodated by encode/decode
spice
Andrew Clinick to follow up with dave raggett(dsr@w3.org) to get more info. Initial feedback is negative
Uneval
Rok proposed uneval as an alternative to sharp variables
Notetaker: Andrew Clinick