On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:18:16 +0200, Christian Plesner Hansen <christian.plesner.han...@gmail.com> 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 about decimal and its inclusion in ES > please follow up. > > The strongest argument seems to be financial: binary arithmetic is > approximate in a way that makes it unsuitable for financial > calculations. I buy this argument in general -- I would definitely > want my bank to use some form of decimal arithmetic rather than binary > -- but less so in the context of ES. A while ago we (the v8 team) > asked around within google and were unable to find anyone who would > want to do financial calculations client-side.
Java/ECMAScript is not only run inside a web browser. http://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS Personally I am entierly ambivelent to decimal. 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) is unlikely to happen. _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
