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Provisionally agreed items for ECMA-262 edition 4

• Modularity enhancements: classes, types, modules, libraries, packages, etc.
• Internationalization (I18N) items:
  • Non-normative description of Internationalization library [possibly as a separate ECMA technical report]
• Catch guards (exceptions and run-time errors are in E3)
• Decimal arithmetic (enhanced or alternative Number object)
• Atomic (thread-safe) operations discussion/definition (possibly non-normative, or deferred to E5)
• Miscellaneous enhancements [other than modularity]:
  • Declaration qualifiers
  • Extensible syntax (e.g., use of # for RGB values)
  • Fat strings (aka here documents)
  • Units syntax and arithmetic library

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