Subj : Re: try catch blocks
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?= <georg@vnett.de>
Date : Tue May 20 2003 08:32 am

Brendan Eich wrote:
> 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.

But also those projects, that are allways bound to a real JavaScript 
implementation, need to be redesinged, if they want upgrade to JS 2.0, 
or JS 2.0 must keep this as extra load for backward compatibility of 
those projects.

I do not encourage anybody to use those features, if migration to "the 
allways newest JS" is desired. JS 2.0 will give us a lot of useful 
features, we have hungered long times for like versioning and dynamic 
loading of libraries and all such nice stuff. In expectation of those 
features I try to keep my scripts also within my own application, where 
I my self can decide, which js.so I link to, as future compatible as 
possible.

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