Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Calling constructor function with or without new Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:32:09 +0200 Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Lines: 46 Message-ID: <2573728.VVFZz2FXTb@PointedEars.de> References: <55745048$0$13014$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4020474.azVoJSYf4R@PointedEars.de> Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: solani.org 1433867703 26738 eJwFwQkRwEAIBDBLfLsFOQcD/iU0gVM5XxAMHC4oyJGonommscG0yH2pbd1TJV60zXumvj8LxBCk (9 Jun 2015 16:35:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 16:35:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.14.2 X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCV6PNiHBH2H6F3Dio7jE7z9eUURJJ2G41h2/NAqUXGgaAyp5JxA9/TResjIMd9jtvyBzoKFII= Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tl9E80bF6bcSupYKSCSfgNqurlk= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQkBACAIA8BKyHjjqLj+EbxzxIqbFh7mdNoB7PXwzi5LAVnKkjHFdKUzajWx5Tx5rR8g1REW Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:28060 Joao Rodrigues wrote: > On 09/06/2015 10:05, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> Joao Rodrigues wrote: >>> On 07/06/15 14:46, Martin Honnen wrote: >>>> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>>> As you use Rhino which I think did never get updated to implement >>>> ECMAScript 5 you might want to download >>>> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST-ARCH/ECMA-262,%203rd%20edition,%20December%201999.pdf >>>> […] >>> >>> One can read the online version at: >>> >>> >> >> No, those are the *non-normative* versions of the *5.1* Edition. > > ACK the wrong edition (5.1 instead of the 3rd edition), but not the > "non-normative". Wrong. > One can read the preamble of the HTML version [1] Why don’t you? > which states the following: > > | This is the HTML rendering of Ecma-262 Edition 5.1, The ECMAScript > | Language Specification. > | > | The PDF rendering of this document is located at http://www.ecma-> | international.org/ecma-262/5.1/ECMA-262.pdf. > | > | The PDF version is the definitive specification. Any discrepancies ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > | between this HTML version and the PDF version are unintentional. AISB, the HTML version is _not_ the normative (or, as Jason Orendorff put it there, the "definitive") one. It never was. The PDF versions are those that the Ecma International General Assembly voted on, the *normative* ones. -- PointedEars FAQ: | SVN: Twitter: @PointedEars2 | ES Matrix: Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.