- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:25:11 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Cameron McCormack wrote: > > 5.3 Accessing Binding Implementations > > In addition, in languages that support dynamic dispatch, any attempts > to access members of ElementXBL objects that do not correspond to > methods or properties on the object itself but do correspond to > members of one of the objects in the xblImplementations list must be > forwarded to the last object in the xblImplementations list that is so > matched. > > It should be mentioned here that ECMAScript is one such language that > supports dynamic dispatch, and how this should be achieved (presumably > by modifying the prototype chain). Changing the prototype chain doesn't work (since the prototype chain only does single inheritance), but I've said that this applies to JS. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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