I suppose we could change the spec, but https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-ecmascript-language-types-string-type requires that "The length of a String is the number of elements (i.e., 16-bit values) within it." - if the number can't be represented, then it seems that requirement can't be satisfied. I'm sure one can come up with a counterintuitive reading of the spec, but is that a realistic interpretation of it?
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Domenic Denicola <d...@domenic.me> wrote: > From: es-discuss [mailto:es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of > Jordan Harband > > > Strings can't possibly have a length larger than Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER > - otherwise, you'd be able to have a string whose length is not a number > representable in JavaScript. > > So? That's a bit inconvenient, but no reason to argue that such a string > can't exist. > >
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