On Sep 19, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sep 19, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: >> >>> Does the committee feel that it can ever add new values to typeof >>> under any circumstances? >> >> Certainly not if there is "opt-in version selection". > > The "opt-in" version selection techniques I recall being discussed > were scoped to compilation units. Are you suggesting that the > "typeof" a value could produce different results based on which > compilation unit evaluated the expression?
No, I'm simply pointing out that there's no perfectly compatible way to add decimal to ES. > **shudder** We've been around this block on the list. I'm with you: typeof 1.1m == "decimal" and we'll take chances with code that thinks it knows every result string that typeof might produce. /be _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
