I just want to mention that this is an awesome paper. And I like its approach to introducing operator overloading into the language.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Cormac Flanagan <[email protected]>wrote: > I wrote up a design a while back for what might be called "value proxies", > which extend the Javascript proxy proposal to also trap primitive > operators, enabling libraries for bignums or decimals, etc. > The write-up is for an idealized 'micro-Javascript' language, > but still helps clarify parts of the potential design space. > > See http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/research/report?ID=1595 > > > - Cormac > > > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> You could use frozen binary data to implement the representation of a > value type, whose operators and literal syntax would come from its > object-like "clothing" (whether declarative via new syntax or using some > Proxy-like API, details TBD). > > > > Any reason to believe that would necessarily incur significant > > performance overhead? If not, that's fine with me. > > > > - Sam Ruby > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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