Subj : Re: try catch blocks
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon May 19 2003 10:53 am

Brendan Eich wrote:

>> Scratching the quicky from the wall or out of the heads is much more 
>> work than implementing a real solution. The unpatient shoud help 
>> Roger to implement JS 2.0. This is more usefull than crying for those 
>> hacks.
>
>
> The people who write JS are not the people who can help implement JS2. 
> Millions of hackers copy and mutate snippets of JS in web pages; 
> thousands program significant amounts of code in it.  Dozens to 
> hundreds write SpiderMonkey-specific code, and those people benefit 
> from catch guards.  Many are using them now.  Get over it.



I should have pointed out that hundreds may be low. I know of several 
VXML object models implemented using SpiderMonkey.  There are other 
non-web uses that likewise benefit from extensions.  Even on the web, if 
you are writing for yourself and a small audience of friends (and anyone 
else willing to download Mozilla), there is no evil in using extensions.

/be

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