Was decimal ruled out as its own type? Peter
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Lars Hansen wrote: > > > None of the above speaks to the possibility that "decimal" might be > > a distinct data type in the language, of course, along with > > "double" and "int" and "uint". Such a data type would in our > > opinion not be a poor fit for ES4, and as your own writings > > demonstrate, there are good use cases for it. We think a few of > > our customers, and probably a few users on the web, would find the > > data type useful. > > I agree with what Lars wrote, except here I think the value of a > hypothetical (possibly mythical) "big red switch" is understated. > That most dup'ed JS bug in buzilla.mozilla.org, > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5856 > > still collects dups at a good clip. There was even a recent variation > complaining about mantissa binary precision limits, but that's not > the common problem. The common problem is that you can't do "dollars > and cents" or "pounds and pennies" arithmetic and get the "right > answer": > > js> 74.96-39.96 > 34.99999999999999 > > This is not a problem for only a "few users on the web". I wish we > could fix it. But the big red switch can't be on the side of the > whole browser, or even the current tab or window (and all its > subsidiary frames or iframes or popups). > > Mike, have you any experience with mixed mode (due to mixed code) > environments? > > /be > > _______________________________________________ > Es4-discuss mailing list > Es4-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss > _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
