Subj : Re: try catch blocks
To   : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?= <georg@vnett.de>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue May 20 2003 11:50 am

Georg Maaß wrote:
> 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.


JS2 is a different language, implemented by a different engine with a 
new API.  Most of the SpiderMonkey embeddings will not migrate to it, 
ever.  That's not to say anything bad about either JS2 or the existing 
SpiderMonkey embeddings.  It's just a fact.

/be

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