Re: Can typed arrays be platform array objects for numeric types? from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-04-03 (public-script-coord@w3.org from April to June 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:10:49 -0400
To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
CC: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4F7A4009.4080009@mit.edu>

On 4/2/12 7:40 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> But wouldn't it be nice if we didn't need to have these two separate
> concepts.

Yes, indeed.

Especially because typed arrays as currently specced have rather 
different behavior from JS arrays (e.g. the length getter lives on the 
prototype for typed arrays) and I'm not sure anyone actually implements 
them as specced, or plans to....

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:11:20 UTC