Re: [bindings] Regarding the algorithm of 4.2.2. Interface prototype object

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:21:13 +1000 To: liorean <liorean@gmail.com> Cc: public-webapps@w3.org Message-ID: <20090619072113.GH32149@arc.mcc.id.au> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 7 December 2009 10:43:11 GMT

Hi David.

David Andersson:
> I think this algorithm as written is severely broken. The reason is
> that [[HasProperty]] will travel the entire chain for each of the
> interfaces in order.
…
> I propose a change to instead use the C3 algorithm as used in Dylan,
> Python 2.3, Perl 6:

A while ago I changed the spec to flatten the multple inheritance into a
single inheritance prototype chain, so I guess that invalidates your
comment.  I’d appreciate review of what’s currently specified, though.

Thanks,

Cameron

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