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                                            Mark S. Miller

Normative: Increase limits on Intl MV and explicitly limit significant digits

Kris? On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM Shane F. Carr ***@***.***> wrote: > *sffc* left a comment (tc39/ecma402#1022) > > > @erights It was suggested that we bring...

ses v8 sniff test is too weak to exclude very-non-v8 platforms

See https://github.com/endojs/endo/issues/1798

Use Compartment.p.evaluate instead of eight magic lines on XS

How about as a `sourceURL` option in a options bag as the second argument to `evaluate` ```js compartment.evaluate(src, { sourceURL: 'file:stuff' }); ``` Attn @kriskowal @dckc

Use Compartment.p.evaluate instead of eight magic lines on XS

Yes, that makes sense to me.

Use Compartment.p.evaluate instead of eight magic lines on XS

We currently depend on the 8 magic lines proxy for two features that we can't emulate using `compartment.evaluate`: * So-called "sloppy globals" where strict a top level assignment to an...

Use Compartment.p.evaluate instead of eight magic lines on XS

For the "sloppy globals" issue, we could painlessly add a dirt simple translator to our repl, replacing a first line matching ```js /^(\s*)(\w*\s*=)/ ``` with ```js `${m[1]}globalThis.${m[2])` ```

Use Compartment.p.evaluate instead of eight magic lines on XS

If the price of moving to `compartment.evaluate` is to give up live bindings, that price is easily worth paying. Alternatively, iff a translated compartment says it exports a live binding,...

Use Compartment.p.evaluate instead of eight magic lines on XS

Noting that there is yet another bug under 8 magic lines that would be fixed by moving to `compartment.evaluate` `ReferenceError` vs `typeof`. Using only the 8 magic lines, it is...

Use Compartment.p.evaluate instead of eight magic lines on XS

See also https://github.com/Agoric/agoric-sdk/issues/2480 which is dup-ish, but we're keeping both open for now.

Use Compartment.p.evaluate instead of eight magic lines on XS

@kriskowal @mhofman , has this been completed? Can we close this and https://github.com/Agoric/agoric-sdk/issues/2480 now?