Re: [heycam/webidl] Describing overloaded methods (#241)

As far as I know, IDL argument names are entirely specification constructs.  They're not web-exposed in any way, afaict.  _Maybe_ in exception strings, but even then maybe not.  Pretty definitely sure not in Gecko.

Given that, I don't think changing them is necessarily a problem.

That said, I definitely think of IDL overloads in terms of their types, not the arg names, precisely because the arg names are so completely meaningless in practice.  They mostly serve as documentation of the meaning of the argument.

We can probably have an interesting discussion about whether types or names are more _stable_ in terms of not breaking links...  I have no idea which it is.

I'm not sure any of that helps @annevk any.

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