That's some interesting stuff kdex! You know a lot more about Roman numerals than I. I was hoping I'd learn some stuff like that; thank you.
Your point about Roman being nonpositional and therefore a bad fit for radix is well taken. That convinces me that at least this implementation is wrong. (The other arguments in my mind amount to "well this could get tricky, so we'd better not even try". :^) "Nobody uses Roman numerals" is, I think, the main, real reason this won't happen. English is an even more bodged-up mess than Roman numerals, but people use it, so it's important. Jav- oops - EcmaScript itself can fairly be called messy, but humans use it a great deal, so it's important. Someday, AIs doing engineering on quantum computers will argue about whether it would make sense to sneak in a quick mode to simulate ye olde EcmaScript. You know, just as a joke. :^) On 7/7/17, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Send es-discuss mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of es-discuss digest..." > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
