const types and a signed 8 bit integer type (was: Re: WebIDL plans?)

• From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
• Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:35:15 +1300
• To: Shiki Okasaka <shiki.okasaka@gmail.com>
• Cc: public-script-coord <public-script-coord@w3.org>, Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir@mozilla.com>, Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com>
• Message-ID: <20110313233515.GC16504@wok.mcc.id.au>

Shiki Okasaka (about a year ago):
> * add ConstType to the grammar; I chatted with Cameron about this before:
> 
> [12] Const -> "const" ConstType identifier "=" ConstExpr ";"
> 
> [65] ConstType ->
>     UnsignedIntegerType
>     | BooleanType
>     | FloatType
>     | ScopedName
>     | OctetType

I added this (and allowed DOMStrings to be consts).

> * add a signed 8 bit integer type. It could be a new "byte" type just like,
> 
> [47] IntegerType ->
>     | "byte"
>     | "short"
>     | "long" OptionalLong
> 
>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-script-coord/2010JanMar/0000.html

Added this too.

Thanks,

Cameron

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Received on Sunday, 13 March 2011 23:35:58 UTC