typed objects and value types

Brendan Eich brendan at mozilla.org
Tue Apr 8 20:26:33 PDT 2014


int64 and uint64 are integral parts of value objects, first proofs of 
concept even. Sorry I fell behind on the SpiderMonkey bug, I'm hoping 
others will take it over (cc'ed; and for V8) and revive it. It has 
obvious use-cases in Node.js and anything that tiles the OS syscall surface.

/be

Cristian Petrescu-Prahova wrote:
> > Note that "value object" proposal does not address int64.
>
> FWIW, I'm too interested in solving the int64 problem somehow. The 
> last I heard about int64 was here: 
> http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects2. How does the 
> int64 story move forward?
>


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