Subj : Re: spidermonkey docu
To   : Jens Thiele <karme@unforgettable.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Apr 08 2004 11:39 am

Jens Thiele wrote:
>>But the doc does not lie.  Converting to double and then to int loses no
>>information, it's just less efficient than what's actually done in the
>>implementation.
>>
>>So I'm not sure why you say the doc is wrong.  It is not in error, it's
>>just (as usual, thanks to whoever wrote it for Netscape, ages ago) a bit
>>misleading about implementation, a bit too detailed in that respect, and
>>oddly not detailed enough in other ways.
> 
> 
> well yes
> it just caused me to do:
> if (JSVAL_IS_INT(v)) {
>       ... = JSVAL_TO_INT(v);
> }else{
> 	js_ValueToInt32
> }

Ok, fair point -- I was considering only correctness, but efficiency 
counts too, and the docs shouldn't mislead on that scale.

More to fix.  Anyone want to try a patch for 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js/docs/jsref.xml ?

/be

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