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jonny_eh on March 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: DEC64: Decimal Floating Point

Is this intended to be used in a future version of JavaScript?

ErsatzVerkehr on March 8, 2014 [–]

Worse:

> DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages.

greenyoda on March 8, 2014 | [–]

Was this sweeping pronouncement approved by the Central Committee for the Design of Future Programming Languages (CCDFPL), or is Crockford only speaking for himself?

ahoge on March 8, 2014 | | [–]

He's just proposing it. It doesn't carry any weight.

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