On 30 June 2014 19:01, Rick Waldron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Jan Keromnes <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'd just like to add that "joke requests" like Math.TAU that have no >>> place in the language specification itself generate a considerable >>> amount of overhead for those of us who keep up with the mailing list. >> >> I don't think asking for Math.TAU was a "joke request". It's rather a >> request for a convenient short-cut to the value `Math.PI * 2`, of which the >> utility and judiciousness can be debated. Sorry if I'm adding noise to this >> less-interesting thread, but I feel the issue is being dismissed without >> adequate consideration. I'm looking forward to Brendan championning it at >> the next TC39 meeting, so that we can accept or dismiss it with a proper >> review. >> >> My take is that having Math.TAU would end this kind of madness: >> https://github.com/search?q=%22Math.PI*2%22&ref=searchresults&type=Code > > Probably not-so-coincidentally, I have almost the same search url saved in > notes I'm preparing for discussion at the next TC39 meeting. If you remove > the "Math." part, there are 20,288 more matches: > https://github.com/search?q=%22PI*2%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults if you > add spaces between PI, *, 2 there are over 3000 more matches. When the parts > of the term are flipped around as "2*PI": > https://github.com/search?q=%222*PI%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults (137,134 > matches for those that don't want to click). Then variations of "math.PI", > "Math.PI" with or without spaces will yield several thousand more for each.
Come on. By that metric, we should immediately introduce a toplevel binding `OP` as a synonym for Object.prototype, because a gazillion lines of JS code out there contain it -- that would actually save 14 characters each, as opposed to 1 for Math.TAU. And we could probably come up with 100 more constants and abbreviations of equivalent utility in less than 3 minutes. /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
