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ECMAScript Version 5 Approved

Posted by timothy on from the javascript-by-any-other-name dept.

systembug writes "After 10 years of waiting and some infighting, ECMAScript version 5 is finally out, approved by 19 of the 21 members of the ECMA Technical Committee 39. JSON is in; Intel and IBM dissented. IBM is obviously in disagreement with the decision against IEEE 754r, a floating point format for correct, but slow representation of decimal numbers, despite pleas by Yahoo's Douglas Crockford." (About 754r, Crockford says "It was rejected by ES4 and by ES3.1 — it was one of the few things that we could agree on. We all agreed that the IBM proposal should not go in.")

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  1. Re:use fixed point instead by StripedCow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you work for these guys?

    No, but they can hire me... I'm already looking forward to the amount they'll put on my paycheck...

    --
    If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
  2. Re:Will this allow us a FOSS alternative to Flash? by snaz555 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until we get a slick gui editor for javascript+svg animation, no.

    In other words, we need GNU Ecmas.

  3. Re:Floating point numbers and decimals by mdmkolbe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Catches type errros at run time.

    And no, I don't know what the name is for a language that catches spelling errors.

  4. Re:Calculations in cents by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even easier would be to base all the system on cents. After that it's extremely easy to convert that cents value into a dollar/cents string.

  5. Re:Calculations in cents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    WHOOSH