tc39/ecma262

consistently capitalise List when referring to the spec data structure

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#2,630 opened on Jan 20, 2022

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Description

There's some places where we refer to a List as a "list".

- argumentsList is the list of arguments values passed to the method
+ argumentsList is the List of arguments values passed to the method

- and it would be unobservable if an implementation removed the pair from the [[TemplateMap]] list.
+ and it would be unobservable if an implementation removed the pair from the [[TemplateMap]] List.

- Initially a new empty List, representing the list of objects to be kept alive until the end of the current Job
+ Initially a new empty List, representing the objects to be kept alive until the end of the current Job

etc.

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Search the specification source for lowercase 'list' that should be capitalized 'List' when referring to the List data structure, and create a pull request with the corrections.
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