- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:52:49 -0400
- To: public-script-coord@w3.org
On 8/27/13 4:46 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > Joshua Bell wrote: >> Now the problem: the new call would fail silently on older >> implementations; This is the problem with silently allowing+ignoring extra args, yes. Extensibility gets hard. :( >> How should the API be designed to allow feature detection, without >> "designing for the past" ? Checking myCursor.continue.length would work if it took into account optional arguments.... What exactly is the status of that, by the way? > New method wins cleanly in my view, I agree, for this case, but I'd like us to think hard about the .length situation... -Boris
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