Re: "var" declarations shadowing properties from Window.prototype from Cameron McCormack on 2012-08-12 (public-script-coord@w3.org from July to September 2012)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:01:31 +1000
To: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>
CC: Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, public-script-coord@w3.org, es-discuss@mozilla.org
Message-ID: <50271C8B.8050208@mcc.id.au>

Brendan Eich:
> As noted, they started out that way 17 years ago. I think WebIDL and
> interface-based method definition made onload, e.g., predefined on
> window objects, or more recently on Window.prototype. Was this useful?
> Was it intended specifically (for window, not just intended generally
> due to WebIDL's uniform rules for binding its definitions in JS)?

I don't think it provides any benefit.  Uniformity is the only reason 
the spec says they should be there, currently.

Received on Sunday, 12 August 2012 03:02:25 UTC