Re: Overload of Dictionary and Callback - why is this disallowed? from Boris Zbarsky on 2015-12-01 (public-script-coord@w3.org from October to December 2015)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:22:39 -0500
To: public-script-coord@w3.org
Message-ID: <565E0F9F.5080801@mit.edu>

On 12/1/15 3:40 PM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> Getting around this "in prose" requires hacks. And since our
> implementation uses an IDL compiler, this requires our IDL to be
> different from the spec's IDL in gratuitous ways.

I'm a little confused.  What is (or should be) the spec's IDL here?

If you're talking about just doing this in your own IDL, not in the 
spec, then you can clearly add something to your IDL implementation that 
allows the distinguishability you need here or something....

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2015 21:23:10 UTC