ECMAScript Version 5 Approved 158
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.")
Re:use fixed point instead (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...
Re:Will this allow us a FOSS alternative to Flash? (Score:5, Funny)
Until we get a slick gui editor for javascript+svg animation, no.
In other words, we need GNU Ecmas.
Re:Floating point numbers and decimals (Score:3, Funny)
Catches type errros at run time.
And no, I don't know what the name is for a language that catches spelling errors.
Re:Calculations in cents (Score:4, 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.
Re:Calculations in cents (Score:1, Funny)
WHOOSH