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manuel
Operators
Javascript and Perl's operators don't behave identically. Nor do Python's.
Do we want to try and standardise on a single set of behaviours? Is that even feasible?
This ticket is more a placeholder for "now there's three implementations we should start thinking about this" than anything else.
Standardizing across JS and Perl -- sounds like the definition of hell to me ;-)
From the "Wat as an embeddable engine" standpoint, I think that's best left to each embedder.
At one point I'd like to define a higher-level, less expressive, statically-typechecked language based on Wat, and for that standardization may make sense.
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:42:59AM -0700, Manuel Simoni wrote:
Standardizing across JS and Perl -- sounds like the definition of hell to me ;-)
I was planning to invoke ingy to help since his c'dent project is intended to compile to perl, JS, python, ruby and other things.
Possibly the answer will be to have a small set of 'definitely do the right thing' operators - numeric-eq and string-eq or something.
Honestly I think if we changed all the numeric stuff to do 0+x == 0+y and similar we'd get very close to consistency there.
I guess I'll experiment at the point I'm trying to make wat-js and wat-pl talk to each other.
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