Not to be a wet blanket, but this proposal predates padLeftGate by a lot: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end/commit/5e370dc4731aa12c88def15a

Not to be a wet blanket, but this proposal predates padLeftGate by a lot: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end/commit/5e370dc4731aa12c88def15a0b2acc78952c9677 https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-pad-start-end/commit... http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?do=revisions&id=strawman%3Astring_padding http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?do=revisions&id=strawman...