I wonder, why was Std.parseFloat reimplemented in the first place? There is a standard java function to parse doubles: Double.valueOf (or Double.parseDouble). And ...

JavaScript parseFloat() function : The parseFloat() function is used to get the floating point number from a passed string. It first parse the string and then return the number as a decimal number.

(Possibly potential confusion with Java’s strictfp, but that’s a really obscure feature, so I rather doubt it.) (I thought we could implement these by simply pointing them at the native parseFloat (), ...