Re: [WebIDL] interface objects with [Constructor] and [[Call]] from Cameron McCormack on 2010-10-08 (public-script-coord@w3.org from October to December 2010)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:24:57 +1300
To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Cc: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>, "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, Travis Leithead <travil@microsoft.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, annevk@opera.com
Message-ID: <20101008062456.GH3608@wok.mcc.id.au>

Simon Pieters:
> At this point I'm confused at what you intend to change the spec to say.

Sorry for being unclear.  The practical options to choose between are:

  1. Special case XHR to allow calling it to do the same thing as
     constructing it, and just throw a TypeError for other constructors
     called as functions.

  2. Allow all constructors to be called as functions and have the same
     behaviour.

I’ll make the spec do (2).

-- 
Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

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