Re: Why are dictionary-typed attributes not allowed? from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-06-07 (public-script-coord@w3.org from April to June 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:11:12 -0400
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
CC: public-script-coord@w3.org
Message-ID: <4FD0B680.4020501@mit.edu>

On 6/7/12 1:19 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> How would it be different from returning an object that implements an interface?

There are a bunch of differences (the properties don't have to be on 
prototypes, etc), but the real question you seem to be asking is why we 
have dictionaries in the first place, no?  Why do we?

-Boris

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