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What is a membrane?

If you hang out long enough with a certain crowd (in my case, it was the ECMAScript TC39 committee), you will probably hear the term membrane tossed around. And eventually, you will start to wonder, “Well, what is a membrane, anyway?” As is the case with many clever but simple ideas, membranes were first introduced […]

  • March 15, 2013