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| Started by | "FAQ server" <javascript@dotinternet.be> |
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| First post | 2012-12-30 00:00 +0000 |
| Last post | 2012-12-31 20:05 +0000 |
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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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| From | Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> |
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| Date | 2013-01-03 12:49 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <3ro9e81eiol9etmp4mh0ougt3ujlj1426u@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #17913 |
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:39:11 +0000, in comp.lang.javascript John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> <pkEAdTFfSF5QFwl$@J.A830F0FF37FB96852AD08924D9443D28E23ED5CD> wrote: >| On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 at 11:35:32, in comp.lang.javascript, Jeff North >| wrote: >| >On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 16:16:06 +0000, in comp.lang.javascript John G >| >Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> >| ><KAzIkqAGvw4QFwaz@J.A830F0FF37FB96852AD08924D9443D28E23ED5CD> wrote: >| > >| >>| On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 at 23:58:31, in comp.lang.javascript, Jeff North >| >>| wrote: >| >| <snip> >| >>| >Tell me where the misinformation is on the ECMAScript page. >| >>| >| >>| Just follow the link in the Syntax section, of course. >| > >| >I repeat, you haven't criticised anything within the emcascript >| >link but a link within the topic. A link that a visitor may or may not >| >click on. >| > >| >If you are so concerned about this gross, careless and reckless >| >misinformation within Wikipedia then why don't you submit a correction >| >to the site? >| >| Are you naturally dense, or are you just practising to achieve >| denseness? >| >| I've been talking all along about your proposed change to the FAQ, and >| about the general principle of whether the FAQ readers should be told to >| be cautious about some of the documents it points to. >| >| For some reason you seem unwilling to talk about this. Even the FAQ is erroneous and out of date. Should a disclaimer be placed within the FAQ itself that the information contained within is not reliable?
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| From | Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> |
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| Date | 2013-01-03 19:39 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <etdxQNHg5d5QFwD3@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid> |
| In reply to | #17913 |
In comp.lang.javascript message <pkEAdTFfSF5QFwl$@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". -- (c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. Mail via homepage. Turnpike v6.05 MIME. Web <http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - FAQqish topics, acronyms and links; Astro stuff via astron-1.htm, gravity0.htm ; quotings.htm, pascal.htm, etc. No Encoding. Quotes before replies. Snip well. Write clearly. Don't Mail News.
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| From | John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> |
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| Date | 2013-01-04 10:46 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <1MY4asCsLr5QFwkB@J.A830F0FF37FB96852AD08924D9443D28E23ED5CD> |
| In reply to | #17929 |
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 at 19:39:12, in comp.lang.javascript, Dr J R Stockton wrote: >In comp.lang.javascript message <pkEAdTFfSF5QFwl$@J.A830F0FF37FB96852AD0 >8924D9443D28E23ED5CD>, Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:39:11, John G Harris ><john@nospam.demon.co.uk> posted: > >> >>I've been talking all along about your proposed change to the FAQ, and >>about the general principle of whether the FAQ readers should be told >>to be cautious about some of the documents it points to. > >That is quite unnecessary. One should never trust any document for >anything other than expressing what was in the mind of the author at the >time of writing, but corrupted by typoes, editing, etc., etc. <snip> But some documents are absolute. For instance, ECMA 262 v2 is what it is. It can't misrepresent version 2. The latest version is a bit more fragile. It's definitive, but there can be words the committee would rather be different. Even if you don't like it you can't say it's wrong, just wrong-headed. John -- John Harris
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| From | Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> |
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| Date | 2012-12-31 20:05 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <duqBgYH4$e4QFw6Y@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid> |
| In reply to | #17889 |
In comp.lang.javascript message <$D5iY2DKyC4QFwcL@J.A830F0FF37FB96852AD0 8924D9443D28E23ED5CD>, Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:59:06, John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> posted: >On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 at 12:39:16, in comp.lang.javascript, Jeff North >wrote: > > <snip> >>Maybe a link to: >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript >>for a more detailed explanation. > >Which has a link to a Wikipedia article that tells beginners that every >if, for, and while statement contains curly brackets :-( You should find it easier to correct the Wikipedia article rather than the FAQ. Now if you had provided the URL or title of that article, any of us might have been able to fix it. -- (c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. E-mail, see Home Page. Turnpike v6.05. Website <http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms PAS EXE etc. : <http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/> - see in 00index.htm Dates - miscdate.htm estrdate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc.
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