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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by IsaacSchlueter on Thursday September 15, 2011 @02:31AM (#2999101) 

    A compiler that did an 'identity compilation' on a strict 
    subset of real JavaScript, and rejected any problematic 
    or confusing constructs would have value.
It would. But it would be a linter, not a compiler.
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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by SimHacker on Thursday September 15, 2011 @08:44AM (#3000041)
It would only be a linter if it weren't a compiler. If it compiles language X to language X, it's a compiler. Because it compiles. Rule of thumb: if it compiles, it's a compiler, not a linter. Simple. Like ducks.
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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by marshray on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:21PM (#3001736)
What if it compiles language X to language Y, where Y is the union of all the valid programs in X with a set of possible descriptive error strings?
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