8010 2009-10-22 16:52:35 +0000 A valid floating point number was defined as a string, and I'd assume valid ones are a subset of all floating point numbers, so this is the best representation of a string. Applying ToString to a string isn't very interesting. It needs to be clear that it 2010-10-04 14:30:52 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#best-representation-of-the-floating-point-number P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian excors ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 28824 0 contributor 2009-10-22 16:52:35 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#best-representation-of-the-floating-point-number Comment: A valid floating point number was defined as a string, and I'd assume valid ones are a subset of all floating point numbers, so this is the best representation of a string. Applying ToString to a string isn't very interesting. It needs to be clear that it's the Number-based ToString, or that n is always a Number, or something. Posted from: 128.232.100.177 28858 1 ian 2009-10-23 06:46:50 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Hm, yeah, that doesn't make much sense. I've tried to make it better. 28859 2 contributor 2009-10-23 06:47:43 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4299. Check-in comment: Make the 'best representation of a floating point number' stuff actually make a modicum of sense. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4298&to=4299