1291212 - Ship the Exponentiation Operator

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Tom S]

It's going to be released with the next ECMAScript version and obviously already on github, which is what we should aim to implement.

Almost every Firefox release cycle somebody forgets to remove their ** usage from Firefox code.

Comment 1

[Tom S]

Let's do this now. Thanks to André we have the correct precedence. This is already shipping in Chrome and Edge.

Comment 2

[Tom S]

Attachment: Ship the Exponentiation Operator

Comment 3

[Till Schneidereit [:till]]

Comment on attachment 8804879 [details] [diff] [review]
Ship the Exponentiation Operator

Review of attachment 8804879 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Yeah, let's do this.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/1b8a23c25b1f
Ship the exponentiation operator. r=till

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1b8a23c25b1f

Comment 6

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

I've updated the compatibility:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Arithmetic_Operators#Browser_compatibility

And added/updated the related release notes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/52
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScript/ECMAScript_Next_support_in_Mozilla

Florian, I'm not sure how to update the compatibility at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Experimental_features. Can you please do that?

Sebastian

Comment 7

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

(In reply to Sebastian Zartner [:sebo] from comment #6)
Thanks for the doc updates!

> Florian, I'm not sure how to update the compatibility at
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Experimental_features. Can you
> please do that?

Done. We can remove the entry there entirely once 52 is in release.