I'll be speaking tonight in Vancouver, BC about the new features of ECMAScript 5.
Details here.
I'll post the slides after I give the talk.
Update: Here are the slides.
ECMAScript 5 Talk Tonight
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Looking forward for your slides. ^_^
What's your source for the assertion that "use strict" will eventually lose the quotes? I haven't followed the mailing list closely for awhile, but I also haven't heard anything like this before.
Jeff,
I can't cite anything official. My understanding, (based on "something I read somewhere" :-) is that when keywords like 'let' start getting added to the language then there is an opportunity to make 'use' a keyword as well. I also have the impression that everyone agrees that using string literals is pretty kludgy and is hopefully transitional.
But I could be far off base on that.