[calebegg]

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...

[faide]

Good catch, I stand corrected.

[dherman]

Still, I wouldn't say nobody cracked a smile at the last TC39 meeting... ;P