To me this sounds as a good idea, I was actually under the impression that it would be under Math until I saw the first ES6 draft featuring clz.
Having it under Math not only seems more consistent to me, but also lets you do nice things like `numbers.map(Math.clz)`. Cheers, Jussi On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a judgment call, I'm with Jason, I think we should revisit. I'm > putting it on the TC39 meeting agenda. > > /be > > Allen Wirfs-Brock <mailto:[email protected]> >> January 15, 2014 11:26 AM >> >> >> So we discussed all that when we made that decision. I understand that >> you disagree but is there any new data that should cause us to reopen an >> issue that was already discussed and decided at a TC39 meeting? >> >> Allen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >> Jason Orendorff <mailto:[email protected]> >> January 15, 2014 11:18 AM >> >> ES6 adds a clz function, but it's a method of Number.prototype.clz >> rather than Math.clz. >> >> The rationale for this decision is here (search for clz in the page): >> http://esdiscuss.org/notes/2013-07-25 >> >> Can we reverse this, for users' sake? The pattern in ES1-5 is quite >> strong: math functions go on the Math object. >> >> The rationale (What if we add a uint64 type?) doesn't seem compelling >> enough to justify the weirdness of the result: we'll have a single >> mathematical operation available only as a Number method, and all >> others available only as Math functions. >> >> -j >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
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