OK, thanks (also for the archive pointer). Mike
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow IBM UK (MP8), PO Box 31, Birmingham Road, Warwick, CV34 5JL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/mfcsumm.html Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 21/02/2008 09:54 To Mike Cowlishaw/UK/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Adam Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[email protected] es4-discuss" <[email protected]> Subject Re: ES3.1 Proposal Working Draft - decimal support On Feb 21, 2008, at 1:25 AM, Mike Cowlishaw wrote: > Separately from the decimal discussion, I am a bit confused at how > ES3.x > or ES4 is migrated to from ES3. If the syntax cannot change then that > implies that the semantics change without any indication in the > syntax. ES4 has new syntax; the syntax-cannot-change has been an on-then-off- then-on-again principal for ES3.1. In particular ES4 has the m suffix for decimal literals, and it has had some kind of 'use decimal' pragma. > That would mean that existing scripts would work differently than > before. > Surely that pretty much requires some meta-notation (such as opt-in > versioning)? Indeed. /be Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
