Editorial: "an Array", not "an Array object" [etc] #2489
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| <p>This specification does not make any guarantees that any object will be garbage collected. Objects which are not live may be released after long periods of time, or never at all. For this reason, this specification uses the term "may" when describing behaviour triggered by garbage collection.</p> | |||
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| <p>The semantics of WeakRef and FinalizationRegistry objects is based on two operations which happen at particular points in time:</p> | |||
| <p>The semantics of WeakRefs and FinalizationRegistrys is based on two operations which happen at particular points in time:</p> | |||
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Ehhh I will just fix that.
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lol that's also awkward if FInalizationRegistry is a dfn tho - making this "FinalizationRegistry objects" to avoid this problem was an explicit editorial review item for the weakref proposal :-p
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Neither FinalizationRegistrys nor FinalizationRegistries will auto-link currently, so we might as well go with the better one.
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| <p>The semantics of WeakRefs and FinalizationRegistrys is based on two operations which happen at particular points in time:</p> | |
| <p>The semantics of a WeakRef and a FinalizationRegistry are based on two operations which happen at particular points in time:</p> |
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I'm concerned about both automatic linking and also natural pluralization; i suppose if ecmarkup could detect y → ies then it's not a big deal, but it makes it awkward to speak about out loud.
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i suppose if ecmarkup could detect
y → iesthen it's not a big deal
I was thinking I'd just allow dfn to specify pluralizations explicitly.
it makes it awkward to speak about out
Sorry, what becomes awkward?
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ys obviously, when spoken aloud, nobody will come up with the spelling; the ies one just seems weird to me even though also obviously, the pluralization of registry is registries, it's weird when it's a camelcased thing.
not a strong opinion, it's just weird :-)
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I think FinalizationRegistrys is fine.
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Rebased on #2492, so now the plural FinalizationRegistrys should link.
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Ugh, hold off merging for a sec, I just noticed a typo edit: ok fixed |
#2483 proposes to change a few occurrences of "TypedArray object" to "TypedArray". (There were some usages of the latter form already.) That seems better, so we might as well do that everywhere it makes sense to do so.
I've changed most uses of "an X object" to be "an X", with the following exceptions: