- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:52:48 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- CC: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
On 7/11/14, 4:44 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>> With "serializer = { attribute };" (possibly with simpler syntax!) you
>> automatically get a toJSON with the behavior everyone would typically expect
>> toJSON to have here. There's value in having that shortcut so spec authors
>> do not have to reinvent that wheel in prose.
>
> That applies equally to toString(). See e.g. URLUtils.
In cases when you do "stringifier attribute", sure. It saves you the
trouble of having:
attribute DOMString foo;
DOMString toString();
and prose that says that invoking toString() does the same thing as the
foo getter. Which is not very much trouble, imo, compared to what a
typical toJSON prose description would need to do.
-Boris
Received on Friday, 11 July 2014 14:53:18 UTC