It's not just strange. It's against Ecma's explicit organization-wide policy.
-j On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:13 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Jeff Walden <jwalden+...@mit.edu> wrote: > > Using a library to do certain things we do other ways right now, in > sometimes inferior fashion, doesn't seem inherently objectionable to me. So > long as the library's internal decisions don't bleed too far into the > visible API, which I don't believe they did here. > > Note that the ECMA-402 folks have hinted that if Microsoft adopted ICU > it would make it much easier to expose a bunch of new stuff and have > been pushing Microsoft in that direction. Were that to happen you have > software monoculture, bugs that cannot be fixed, etc. It's especially > strange that a standards body is encouraging this kind of thing. > > > -- > https://annevankesteren.nl/ > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
