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> So, are we bemoaning that we don't have an standard for the language? There is a standard. [0] [0] https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards
by shakna 7y ago
> So, are we bemoaning that we don't have an standard for the language?
There is a standard. [0]
[0] https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...
- taeric 7y agoApologies, I meant a standard that was closer to common lisp. Since I believe it is one of the more comprehensive standards. I would not be shocked to find I am off on that claim.
- shakna 7y agoThis is more about the numeric tower, which common lisp does quite well, whilst JavaScript leans pretty heavily onto IEEE 754. (rev 2008 in the above linked spec). And IEEE 754 has quite a number of edge cases that people find surprising, including things like operations only have to be reproducible up to a certain epsilon - an epsilon that is only defined to a minimum range in JavaScript.
- taeric 7y agoRight, and my assertion was supposed to be on just how extensive the common lisp spec is.