Re: IDL: number types

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

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> ES itself will presumably be introducing various To* conversions for its
> definition of typed arrays and DataViews.  Do we expect web specs to need
> conversions like those in other contexts?  Those are the questions we
> should be asking ourselves.


Check out "Table 35" in the latest ES6 draft. For example it provides the
following for Uint8Array:

Constructor Name: Uint8Array
Element Type: Uint8
Element Size: 1
Conversion Operation: ToUint8
Description: 8-bit unsigned integer
Equivalent C Type: unsigned char

So, with ES6 we now have: ToInt8, ToUint8, ToUint8Clamp, ToInt16, ToUint16,
ToInt32 and ToUint32

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erik