- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:02:54 -0400
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-script-coord@w3.org
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 3/18/13 9:59 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Now ES6 will define ArrayBuffer and friends, can we move IDL to a >> integer/float model > > I'm not sure what you mean by that. Is there some context I should read up > on? The context is continued complaints about IDL's mismatch with JavaScript. The last time I brought up simplification of the various numeric types it was brought up that ArrayBuffer and friends relied on the various C types. Now ArrayBuffer will no longer rely on them by being natively defined in ES6 I was wondering whether we could do this, or if there are some other reasons why we have these types that do not match JavaScript's floating point. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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