Re: Additional language features

2011-03-07 Thread Erik Corry
2011/3/5 Christian Mayer m...@christianmayer.de: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello together! Currently I'm writing a (for me) large project that is heavily using JavaScript / ECMAScript. During that project I found a few features missing in the language that could

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 06.03.2011 00:59, schrieb David Herman: Using the small, fixed size subset of that lib and exporting the interface to ECMAScript should give perfect coverage Can you be more explicit about what you mean by perfect coverage? What set of use

Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello together! Currently I'm writing a (for me) large project that is heavily using JavaScript / ECMAScript. During that project I found a few features missing in the language that could easily be added and where I think that many programmers

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Brendan Eich
On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Christian Mayer wrote: 1) A printf compatible format string http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:string_format http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:quasis We discussed both at the last meeting and quasis is on the agenda for the next one. Mike

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks for the fast response! Am 05.03.2011 17:31, schrieb Brendan Eich: On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Christian Mayer wrote: 1) A printf compatible format string http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:string_format

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread P T Withington
On 2011-03-05, at 14:38, Christian Mayer wrote: Am 05.03.2011 17:31, schrieb Brendan Eich: On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Christian Mayer wrote: 1) A printf compatible format string http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:string_format

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread David Herman
But I miss the linear algebra library to go with it. Can you send references to example libraries for other systems that you would like to see? Especially for the binary data approach, as it's removing an order that might be implicitly known - sorry, I don't know how to express that better,

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 05.03.2011 23:38, schrieb David Herman: But I miss the linear algebra library to go with it. Can you send references to example libraries for other systems that you would like to see? A big favourite of mine (I'm biased, though...) is the

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread David Herman
A big favourite of mine (I'm biased, though...) is the Eigen2 library (LGPL3+): I can't speak for other browser vendors, but I think that license isn't compatible with Mozilla's codebase. But thanks for the reference. Using the small, fixed size subset of that lib and exporting the

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Alex Russell
On Mar 5, 2011, at 3:59 PM, David Herman wrote: A big favourite of mine (I'm biased, though...) is the Eigen2 library (LGPL3+): I can't speak for other browser vendors, but I think that license isn't compatible with Mozilla's codebase. But thanks for the reference. Using the small,

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Dave Herman
Is this an argument for including a matrix library in the spec? 'Cause my point was just, if the rationale for including it is that host implementations could exploit the GPU, well, so could JS. Dave -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Alex Russell