[Bug 24241] Adopt the ES6 "safe integer" range for (unsigned) long longs

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24241

Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com> ---
As much as I would love to kill all the number types, I think their replacement
needs a bit more thought first. E.g. a survey of the usages is important, to
find out what predefined ranges people use (and whether they actually depend on
it being in that range, or if they also do other range validation and just
choose e.g. "short" because the valid values are in the range 1-3, or...).

And you'd want some kind of specification for what to replace it with, which
would probably be something vaguely [ThrowIf(>= 10, < 0)] or [ClampTo(1, 8)] or
[Round] or [Floor] or similar.

I think what's most offensive about the numeric types is not the behavior of
coercing to integers or mandating a specific ranges, both of which are useful
and in some cases necessary. What's offensive is that we pretend this behavior
has something to do with traditional C-ish concepts of float, double, short,
long, long long, etc., or that the variables are actually "typed" that way,
when of course they're all just `Number` in JS.

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