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ECMAScript spec proposal for String.prototype.{padStart,padEnd}

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2016-03-24 · latest 2025-06-11

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  1. …at the time of the incident [2] [1] https://tc39.es/ecma262/2017/#sec-string.prototype.padstart [2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end
    comment by bakkoting · 2025-06-11 · in Left-Pad (2024)
  2. …useful enough. You can even read why in the original proposal if you comb the archives enough (from https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end ): > It is highly probable that the majority of current string padding…
  3. The reason I say it's a strange example is because of this: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end , which was added to the language two years ago (and seemingly very quickly [as tc39 proposals go], I assume due to left-pad)
    comment by RobertKerans · 2019-01-25 · in Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond
  4. …- https://github.com/tc39/proposal-object-values-entries * String padding - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end * Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors - https://github.com/ljharb/proposal-object-getownpropertydesc... * T
    comment by thomasfoster96 · 2017-07-11 · in ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification
  5. Not to be a wet blanket, but this proposal predates padLeftGate by a lot: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end/commit... http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?do=revisions&id=strawman...
    comment by calebegg · 2016-04-29 · in ES6, ES7, and beyond
  6. …proposed as standard after lodash 3.0.0 was released. So he changed it on the next major release: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end
    comment by sod · 2016-03-24 · in Left-pad as a service