On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If === remains as good an indistinguishability test as it is now --
>> with only the above two exceptions -- then I'd agree we don't need
>> Object.eq. Libraries could provide it without undue burden. However,
>> assuming you agree that 1.0m == 1.00m, then you'd break the regularity
>> in the first bullet.
>
> Does that not depend on what typeof 1.0m returns?
Huh? As long as typeof 1.0m == typeof 1.00m, then you'd still break
the first bullet.
>>> I'm trying to avoid too much creature feep in any edition ;-). Other
>>> languages have near-universally-quantified hashcode analogues but solve
>>> NaN
>>> dilemmas by throwing (Python, IIRC).
>>
>> FWIW, E has exactly two equality operators:
>> * x == y implies observable equivalence, but operates more like
>> Henry Baker's EGAL operator than like Lisp's EQ.
>> NaN == NaN // yields true
>> -0.0 == 0.0 // yields false
>> * x <=> y means "According to x, x and y are the same magnitude".
>> NaN <=> NaN // yields false
>> -0.0 <=> 0.0 // yields true
>
> Nice. No Decimal in E, though, with preserved significance....
Someone could add a decimal library to E without special dispensation
from the language designers. If one did, then I'd recommend they do it
such that
m`1.0` == m`1.00` // yields false
m`1.0` <=> m`1.00` // yields true
(The backquote syntax is E's way of embedding DSLs. The identifier to
the left of the backquote is mangled into a quasi-parser name, to
parse and evaluate the string between the quotes.
<http://google-caja.googlecode.com/svn/changes/mikesamuel/string-interpolation-29-Jan-2008/trunk/src/js/com/google/caja/interp/index.html>
brings some similar ideas to JavaScript.)
> It seems to me that this second way was conflated with adding Object.eq,
> when it's not strictly necessary to add Object.eq if those who really need
> to distinguish significance of two otherwise equal decimals could reach for
> compareTotal or stringification and == or === and cope.
Object.eq isn't about numbers or strings, so that's not an adequate
coping strategy.
--
Cheers,
--MarkM
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