Don't you want to be able to express rounding mode? And if so, do you
need 4 operators? floor/, ceiling/, round/, truncate/? Oh, maybe they
should be named /-, /+, /~ and /0. Yow.
Is div truncate/, or round/? I can never remember.
On 2008-03-05, at 18:18 EST, Lars Hansen wrote:
> Just \ would work if we're happy with not allowing its use at the
> end of
> a line. A little dodgy, syntactically, IMO. I've advocated "\\" in
> the
> past, which by normal lexing rules would be unambiguous by the
> longest-token lexing rule.
>
> ("/." is ambiguous, consider 3/.5.)
>
> --lars
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Michael O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 5. mars 2008 15:06
> To: Lars Hansen
> Cc: TNO; es4-discuss@mozilla.org
> Subject: Re: New Operator
>
>
> I'll vote for that also. It improves readability quite a bit.
>
> But is there a better operator than "\"?
>
> Shame "//" is taken. What about "/."
>
> Michael
>
> Lars Hansen wrote:
>
> I have been pushing for this in the past on several
> occasions, but enthusiasm in the WG has been scant, unfortunately.
> Maybe I haven't been pushing hard enough.
>
> --lars
>
>
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> Sent: 5. mars 2008 14:13
> To: es4-discuss@mozilla.org
> Subject: New Operator
>
>
> Is it too late to propose an integer division
> operator into the spec? I do quite a bit of WSH programming in both
> VBScript an JScript and sometimes its a bit of an irritant during a
> translation, it would be nice to see this operator "\" available in
> the
> new ECMAScript instead of having to rely on more inefficient
> workarounds:
>
> VBScript:
>
> Dim result
> result = 19 \ 4 '(result = 4)
>
> JScript:
>
> http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=58799
>
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