Re: "var" declarations shadowing properties from Window.prototype from Cameron McCormack on 2012-10-06 (public-script-coord@w3.org from October to December 2012)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:36:09 +1000
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
CC: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>, Travis Leithead <Travis.Leithead@microsoft.com>
Message-ID: <506F8B09.6020605@mcc.id.au>

Boris Zbarsky:
> I believe they should remain accessor properties.
>
> I think making them all [Replaceable] is likely to cause compat problems.

OK.

> Apart from that, the only difference betewen #1 and #2 is strict-mode
> behavior, right?

Yes.  And we can work around the problem in strict mode if we want, by 
giving the accessor properties setters that do nothing.  Should we do that?

Received on Saturday, 6 October 2012 01:36:47 UTC