On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Douglas Crockford wrote: > It may be best to defer decimal to Harmony so we can try some > experiments and have more confidence.
Absolutely agree (someone added es-discuss to the cc: list already). See https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2008-August/007136.html which led to many followups and different discussions. In all of those messages, I do not recall reading why decimal can't wait for Harmony. It's not that we wouldn't "just take decimal" if it dropped into 3.1 without slipping 3.1's schedule, but I don't see how that is possible simply in terms of spec production. Getting feedback from significant numbers of users based on Sam's open-source implementation also looks like it will take more than a few months, and if this user feedback must come before spec production, then we are doubly out of time for decimal in 3.1. This doesn't mean the pace of implementation should slow down. Sam, I'm still keen on reviewing your patch for SpiderMonkey. It may not make Firefox 3.1 (I think it could) but it should get into automated proto-Firefox builds that people can test. /be _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
