[Laszlo-dev] Re: Notes from alternate runtime meeting

[Oliver Steele]

On November 14, 2005, at 2:56:34 PM, Max Carlson wrote:
>>         May be able to continue to use .prototype chaining for  
>> now, if available

It looks like this might be available in the final version of swf9.   
Brenan Eich writes < http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/ 
009177.html> about the standardization process for ECMAScript 4.0:

> Our goals include:
>
> Bringing Edition 4 back toward the current language, so that  
> prototype based delegation is not a vestigial compatibility mode,  
> but the dynamic part of an object system that includes classes with  
> fixed members that cannot be overridden or shadowed.
>
> Our intention is to finish by the end of next year, and to  
> implement and test interoperation along the way as much as  
> possible. The Macromedia folks are quite far along in their  
> implementation of a derivative of Waldemar's Edition 4 draft,  
> called ActionScript 3.


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