My first attempt to reply bounced from es4-discuss since I wasn't subscribed.
-----Original Message----- From: Dick Sweet Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:10 PM To: 'Brendan Eich'; Peter Hall Cc: es4-discuss Discuss; TC39; Mike Cowlishaw Subject: RE: Adobe position paper on the ECMAScript 4 proposal space -- decimal A couple of comments from the fellow who did the trial implementation of decimal in Tamarin. It would be pretty easy to have decimal if you have to explicitly declare variables of that type and need to explicitly denote literals that you want to be decimal with the "m" suffix. Such denotation would not be necessary for literals without fractional parts, unless they are beyond the range of integer representation within a double. Promotion of arithmetic to decimal in mixed situations isn't that hard to do. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Brendan Eich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:58 AM To: Peter Hall Cc: es4-discuss Discuss; TC39; Mike Cowlishaw Subject: Re: Adobe position paper on the ECMAScript 4 proposal space -- decimal On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > First, nothing's "ruled out" -- you're asking the wrong guy if you > want Adobe's position, but see Lars's reply to Mike Cowlishaw: > decimal as a type without any implicit literal/operators mode is > still possible, I should have written "without generic operator methods" -- ES4 could still have a decimal type and built-in operators and literal support, but no modal defaulting (no "big red switch"). /be _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
