Re: Bug 24878 - Remove algorithm aliases

01 марта 2014 г., в 14:53, Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> написал(а):

> But is there really any use case besides "it's silly and saves the developer a few characters"?

Both are pretty important considerations in API design, I think. When all one needs is to compute a hash, why expose them to the full complexity of Algorithm being a dictionary?

> It seems like apps are going to define aliases anyway, so there's not much point to the browser doing it as well.

I now see what you mean when saying that there are no aliases defined - I just overlooked it when the spec draft changed.

It used to say that passing "foo" is equivalent to passing {name: "foo"}. Looks like this feature was quietly removed when adding the provision for a more general mechanism. I suggest bringing this back as is, regardless of whether there are any more aliases to define.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov