Javascript bytecode

Rob T rob at ucora.com
Wed Dec 19 10:23:37 PST 2012


On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 13:13:32 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 07:14:30 UTC, Rob T wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 01:58:54 UTC, Jonathan M 
>> Davis wrote:
>>> Such operations should be @system but are currently 
>>> considered @safe. Who
>>> knows how many others we've missed beyond what's currently in 
>>> bugzilla.
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> Unfortunately fixing these will break existing code, or can 
>> the behavior be depreciated?
>
> We *must* take the liberty to fix them; if SafeD is not sound, 
> it's hardly worth its salt.
>
> David

Don't get me wrong, I agree that broken behavior must always be 
fixed and never left in as a "feature".

Probably the priority bugs should be the ones where the fix ends 
up breaking existing code. The sooner these are gotten rid of the 
better.

--rt


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