On 22 Aug 2008, at 20:42, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > David Jones wrote: >> On 22 Aug 2008, at 19:28, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: >>> Two values that are === should index the same property [*]. >> >>> [*] but not conversely: two values that index the same property are >>> not necessarily ===. >> >> That highly desirable, but not true, as my earlier message >> illustrates. >> In ES3 the ToString operator on Numbers is not required to be a true >> function in the sense of always yielding the same result for the same >> input. > > That's true, but I strongly believe that it is a specification bug > that > should be fixed for ES3.1 and ES-Harmony.
Well, so do I. But until 3 implementations get on board and say "we can live with changing the note at the end of section 9.8.1 to being normative" then it looks like it's Not Gonna Happen. > > In practice, AFAIK, all the common JavaScript implementations do > have a > deterministic ToString operation on numbers (that is, deterministic > for > each implementation; I don't know whether there are differences > between > implementations). > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2008-July/006627.html> > # In order to ensure implementations all behave the same way I suggest > # the note at end of section 9.8.1 be moved to normative status. > > I agree. drj _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
