Re: [XBL] Binding Attachment and Detachment

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> 
> 3 Binding Attachment and Detachment
> 
> I think the discussion of when bindings are attached or detached in 
> relation to runnings scripts is unclear.  Is it describing that as soon 
> as, for example, the binding’s element attribute is mutated, bindings 
> are attached/detached, and then control continues on to the script 
> directly after the expression that caused the mutation?

Yes.


> Perhaps a concrete example here would help clarify.

Done.


>   When it becomes known that a binding is to be detached, it must happen
>   such that to any running scripts it appears that the binding was
>   removed immediately, except if the script in question is running as
>   part of the last step of the binding attachment process, in which case
>   the detachment happens after all the bindings being attached have had
>   their methods called.
> 
> Should that be “…the last step of the binding detachment process…”?

No, why would it be?

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