On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Mark S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The EcmaScript 3.1 draft standard is rapidly congealing towards an official > standard. The Kona version at > <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=es3.1:es3.1_proposal_working_draft> > is the important one -- details aside, the only remaining significant > unsettled controversy is whether Decimal remains or is pulled from ES3.1.
It seems the desire to add Decimal to Javascript is a special case of the generic desire to have custom syntax inline in a Javascript program. In this case, the desire is to manipulate Decimal objects using math operators. Is there any chance this issue could be side-stepped by adding support for quasi-parsers, like in the E language? So instead of: 0.1m + 0.1m you'd have: m`0.1 + 0.1` The variable m would be initialized to some implementation in Javascript. VMs that recognize this implementation code could then substitute their own more efficient native implementation. Other VMs just execute the provided implementation as normal Javascript code. --Tyler _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
