Ross Tate

Oh shoot, I meant to clarify that I was not asserting the removal of `exnref`. I was just asserting that `exnref` is independent of `anyref`. Does that address your concern,...

No. An external reference is something that is not interpreted by the wasm code at all (except through callbacks to the environment via imported functions). An `exnref` is an internal...

That said, there is some mixing in the sense that you can catch exceptions thrown by JavaScript (it's just that `br_on_exn` will always fail). So I guess it would be...

Actually, I appreciated @aheejin's pushback, as it helped clarify my intent. But I guess your point is that we should focus on the high-level topic independent of the current situation,...

@kripken The current situation I aluded to is that the reference types proposal has two primary features, external references and subtyping, one of which is there is great pressing need...

@jgravelle-google, thanks for calling me out on the hostile tone. I let my frustrations get the best of me. Hopefully it's alright that I edited the post to make for...

> Instead, it sounds to me like it requires surveying users, or finding some other way to seek "approval". This was my own primary concern with my own phrasing as...

> Conversely, we should ask whether the components of the design have significant motivation, and if not, consider whether they should be a part of this proposal. I think this...

I'm hoping to finish drafting a design-rationale document for our proposal this week. That might be a useful example of a rationale document that was developed early in the proposal...

A preliminary draft of our design rationale can now be found in the ongoing pull request: https://github.com/soil-initiative/gc/pull/1 I propose we use the pull request only to discuss the specific rationale,...