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Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30)

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In comp.lang.javascript message <pkEAdTFfSF5QFwl$@J.A830F0FF37FB96852AD0
8924D9443D28E23ED5CD>, Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:39:11, John G Harris
<john@nospam.demon.co.uk> posted:

>
>I've been talking all along about your proposed change to the FAQ, and
>about the general principle of whether the FAQ readers should be told
>to be cautious about some of the documents it points to.

That is quite unnecessary.  One should never trust any document for
anything other than expressing what was in the mind of the author at the
time of writing, but corrupted by typoes, editing, etc., etc.

Example : perhaps you did not know, but the GB legislative system of
1751 decreed "perpetual" rules for the Date of Easter Sunday within GB &
colonies - and they got it right, as the aim was to do it better than
the Papists, but still getting the same results.  You can read that in,
for example, "Statutes at Large 1765".  But the version at the end of
<http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo2/24/23/section/6> is manifestly
corrupt and cannot yield any date at all.  I do not know whether it
correctly represents the true state of UK Law as amended to date (i.e.
who got it wrong).

And it is even more unnecessary, since it is well-known that the content
of a document currently revealed by invoking a "written" URL is not
necessarily exactly, or anything like, what it was when the URL was
"written".

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FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) "FAQ server" <javascript@dotinternet.be> - 2012-12-30 00:00 +0000
  Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-12-30 12:39 +1100
    Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-12-30 11:59 +0000
      Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-12-31 11:19 +1100
        Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-12-31 11:08 +0000
          Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2013-01-01 10:16 +1100
            Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-01-01 01:32 +0100
              Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2013-01-02 15:10 +0000
            Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2013-01-01 10:35 +0000
              Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2013-01-01 23:58 +1100
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2013-01-01 16:16 +0000
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2013-01-02 11:35 +1100
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2013-01-02 15:39 +0000
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-01-02 08:36 -0800
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-01-02 20:54 +0100
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-01-03 19:41 +0000
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-04 12:38 +1100
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-01-04 13:59 +0100
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2013-01-04 14:17 +0100
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-01-04 08:42 -0800
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2013-01-03 12:49 +1100
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-01-03 19:39 +0000
                Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2013-01-04 10:46 +0000
      Re: FAQ Topic - What is ECMAScript? (2012-12-30) Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-12-31 20:05 +0000

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