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Discussion on: My 🔥 First Experience Attending TC39

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Tierney Cyren

Ah, thank you for the additional context Allen!

This... makes sense in the context that it was brought up within the meeting. Coming from a place of still trying to grasp the context of "grammar" in the spec: can normative changes happen around grammar as well, or if changes to grammar would be a different kind of change?

Also: I've added a link to your comment and updated the post to reflect the context you've shared. Thank you for taking the time to explain! ❤️

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Allen Wirfs-Brock

Sure, as "normative" applies to anything that is an actual requirement and the grammar defines the syntax that an implementation is required to recognize.

But while normative grammar issues have occurred in the past, I would expect small bug-fix level normative changes to the grammar to now be quite rare.