Subj : Re: Seeking clarification on effect of literal vs. object syntax.
To   : Christopher M. Balz
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Fri Aug 26 2005 05:36 pm

Christopher M. Balz wrote:

 >Thanks -- perfectly clear now.
 >
 >The reason I wondered is that I was not sure what the
 >word 'literal' meant in context.  In other words, I
 >was not sure if the 'literal' form of an array, etc.
 >was like a String literal, which is a primitive
 >(passed by value, not by reference, etc).  Thus I
 >wondered if this supposed 'primitive' was used to
 >construct an object on the fly.
 >

Do we use literal somewhere in our docs?  In ECMA TG1 we agreed to call 
these things "initialisers" (UK spelling) to avoid confusion, and I 
think that's still a good idea.  So help us stamp out abuse of the 
"literal" term.

/be

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