On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 13:46, Mark Millererig...@gmail.com wrote:
As I think Allen first suggested (please correct if I misattribute or
misconstrue), I have been using Harmony to label the trajectory that the
Harmony agreement set us on. I have been using ES6 to name whatever the
next
People generally expect math to work how they've been taught in
school. When javascript violates their expectations, that is the very
definition of a bug.
It is true that binary might be more precise for certain kinds of
applications, and if it's a native machine type there's performance
People generally expect math to work how they've been taught in
school. When javascript violates their expectations, that is the very
definition of a bug.
School math is accurate, there are no approximations at all. Neither
binary nor decimal are accurate, both will violate people's
On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:49 AM, Christian Plesner Hansen wrote:
I don't know, the user doesn't say why this inaccuracy is a problem.
It sounds like he's just generally unhappy that arithmetic is
approximate. Decimal is approximate too.
That's true at very extreme margins only! Decimal does not
I have concluded that it's too late to fix anything by adding decimal.
It's clearly to late to change the number type from binary to decimal. So we
are going to let library authors cater to users, and get TC39 out of this
hopeless business.
Sorry for being slow but I'm a little unclear on
2009/6/23 Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com
On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Christian Plesner Hansen wrote:
I've been looking around on the web for reasons why decimal arithmetic
should be added to ES. The most extensive page I could find was
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decifaq.html
On Jun 24, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Christian Plesner Hansen wrote:
I have concluded that it's too late to fix anything by adding
decimal.
It's clearly to late to change the number type from binary to
decimal. So we
are going to let library authors cater to users, and get TC39 out
of this
Erik Corry wrote:
2009/6/23 Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com mailto:bren...@mozilla.com
On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Christian Plesner Hansen wrote:
I've been looking around on the web for reasons why decimal arithmetic
should be added to ES. The most extensive page I could
The second message in this thread, my first reply to your head-of-thread
message, said:
Anyway, decimal is not being pushed into JS at this point. At the last
face-to-face TC39 meeting, we changed direction to explore generalizing
value type support (including operators and literals if we
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Christian Plesner Hansen wrote:
The second message in this thread, my first reply to your head-of-
thread
message, said:
Anyway, decimal is not being pushed into JS at this point. At the
last
face-to-face TC39 meeting, we changed direction to explore
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
We can only focus on what's next. Our covenants the
s/the/that/
proscribe certain features are few: no ES4-style namespaces (Common
Lisp packages), nor packages built on them.
I reviewed the Harmony announcement message:
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Christian Plesner Hansen wrote:
I am just as unsure of how to read that. Does at this point mean
that it's off the table altogether for harmony or only that it's been
postponed until later in the process?
Why
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
So let's say ES6 is Harmony.
Last message from me on this topic today, I promise.
I wanted to encourage the use of Harmony for what's next, over
against ES6. The ES3.1 - ES5 experience, and of course many
software release renumbering
I've been looking around on the web for reasons why decimal arithmetic
should be added to ES. The most extensive page I could find was
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decifaq.html. If anyone know other
good sources of information about decimal and its inclusion in ES
please follow up
On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Christian Plesner Hansen wrote:
I've been looking around on the web for reasons why decimal arithmetic
should be added to ES. The most extensive page I could find was
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decifaq.html. If anyone know other
good sources of information
On 23 Jun 2009, at 17:59, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Ash Berlin wrote:
I'd rather it was possible to do operator overloading such that
decial or
what ever else could be implemented natively (in a self hosting JS)
but I
can also accept that this (operator overloading)
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