Re: [XBL] Accessing Binding Implementations

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> 
> 5.3 Accessing Binding Implementations
> 
>   In addition, in languages that support dynamic dispatch, any attempts
>   to access members of ElementXBL objects that do not correspond to
>   methods or properties on the object itself but do correspond to
>   members of one of the objects in the xblImplementations list must be
>   forwarded to the last object in the xblImplementations list that is so
>   matched.
> 
> It should be mentioned here that ECMAScript is one such language that 
> supports dynamic dispatch, and how this should be achieved (presumably 
> by modifying the prototype chain).

Changing the prototype chain doesn't work (since the prototype chain only 
does single inheritance), but I've said that this applies to JS.

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