Re: IndexedDB: undefined parameters

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 10/10/12 6:51 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, ES6 is going to treat the undefined value as "not passing a
>> parameter" when it comes to functions that have default values.
>
>
> When there are default values, yes.  But what about cases when there are no
> default values?

I agree that it's not explicitly the same thing as what we have here.
But I think the general idea is "for optional arguments, treat
'undefined' as if a value wasn't passed at all".

> Note that openCursor, which I think is where this thread started, does NOT
> define default values for its arguments.  Should it?

Probably yes. I think explicitly making 'null' the default value would
clear things up.

> (As a side note, the IDL for openCursor is not valid WebIDL, because "any?"
> is not a valid WebIDL type.)

That sounds like a WebIDL bug.

>> In anticipation of ES6 formally defining this, WebIDL has already
>> switched to this
>
> It certainly hasn't so far, though I agree it may be a good idea to do this.

Yeah. It seems like I'm misremembering. We need to get WebIDL updated here.

/ Jonas