- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:08:20 -0700
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: public-script-coord@w3.org
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:18 AM, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com> wrote: > On 10/20/2011 07:26 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk@opera.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Strings are intrinsically meaningful and therefore have no need for >>> constants in APIs for the platform. See XMLHttpRequest.responseType and >>> the >>> <canvas> 2D API for examples. We should remove string constants so >>> people >>> (e.g. public-web-perf) will not use them and introduce inconsistent APIs. >>> > >> However, there still is an argument for the constant, which is that it >> enables feature detection. > > The other argument is that they make it easier to implement an IDE with code > completion. I don't know if this is enough to make up for the fact that they > are long and ugly. Given that I'd prefer for people to not write Foo.BAR and rather write "bar" (since the latter is faster), I don't think this is a good argument. > A third argument is that it is well known that constants are always > uppercase so one doesn't need to remember whether it is "2d" or "2D". The details, such as capitalization, of strings should be rememberable enough that this shouldn't be a problem. / Jonas
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