Mark's proposal is very close to something I proposed long ago, but was rejected. It has been implemented in Adobe's ExtendScript dialect, with a slight variation (instead of ['reverse+'], a second Boolean argument to the overload implementation indicates reverse operation).
Funny how things keep popping up. Michael -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ash Berlin Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:51 PM To: es-discuss Subject: Re: Why decimal? On 23 Jun 2009, at 17:59, Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Ash Berlin wrote: > >> I'd rather it was possible to do operator overloading such that >> decial or >> what ever else could be implemented natively (in a self hosting JS) >> but I >> can also accept that this (operator overloading) is unlikely to >> happen. > > Au contraire, as I noted in reply to Christian -- it's on the > Harmony agenda: > > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:strawman > > Mark M. took the action to write the spec, he already posted his > operator proposal to this list, here: > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-January/008535.html > > I'm signed up to help Mark (as time allows, definitely in July; new > baby at home). > > /be Awesome. I noticed that after I'd already send my previous response. This doesn't get said enough: good work guys. _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
