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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Search array of objects
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:51:33 +0100
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John G Harris wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:02:50 +0100, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>>John G Harris wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:24:26 +0100, Thomas Lahn wrote:
>>>>John G Harris wrote:
>>>>> He is not talking about a required feature of *every* implementation,
>>>>> as the Standard makes clear.
>>>> No Edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification makes any statement
>>>> or places any requirements as to how objects are to be implemented in
>>>> memory.
>>> Precisely. But every edition says that a value can hold an object.
>> No.
> You mean Yes, don't you.

No, I mean “No”.  Different from certain other people, I say what I think,
I try to do as I say (depends on free time), and I say what I mean.

    [Due to technical restrictions I cannot full-quote the follow-up]

> FYI, this is what the different editions of
> the Standard say :-
> 
>   2nd Edition :
> […]
>   3re Edition : <same as 2nd>
> […]
>   5th Edition :
> […]
>   5.1th Edition : <same as 5th>
> […]
>   6th Edition :
> > "6.1 ECMAScript Language Types
> An ECMAScript language type corresponds to values that are directly
> manipulated by an ECMAScript programmer using the ECMAScript language.
> The ECMAScript language types are Undefined, Null, Boolean, String,
> Symbol, Number, and Object. An ECMAScript language value is a value
> that is characterized by an ECMAScript language type."

That does NOT mean that “a value can hold an object”.  It means that
AN OBJECT CAN BE A VALUE.
 
>   7th, 8th, 9th, 10th Edition : <same as 6th>
> […]
> And finally, from the current edition :-
> 
> "2 Conformance
> A conforming implementation of ECMAScript must provide and support all
> the types, values, objects, properties, functions, and program syntax
> and semantics described in this specification."

That does NOT mean that “a value can hold an object”.  It means that
AN OBJECT CAN BE A VALUE.

q.e.d.

You have to learn to read a text COMPREHENSIVELY without adding your your 
own FANTASIES.
 
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