Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> This was settled in Redmond: if Sam Ruby could do the necessary work in 
> time for Kona (and, yes, details/bugs are almost always present and 
> fixable) decimal support is in 3.1. 
> 
> Sam has done that work, so there is no controversy at this point. 
> ECMAScript 3.1 is looking good, and looks as though it will have 
> industry-wide support.

The number of Decimal-related bugs in the Kona draft is alarmingly high.
I suspect that it will scrape in, but I definitely wouldn't say it was
uncontroversial.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood

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