On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Domenic Denicola <
domenic@domenicdenicola.com> wrote:
> Robert, I am confused what purpose the inheritance serves in your
> proposal. The purpose of inheritance in JS is usually to allow you to apply
> superclass methods (or in this case, accessor) to the base class.
You don't mean "base class" here, do you? Normally "base class" means the
same thing as superclass.
> But that does not work if your model is to *remove* permissions in the
> subclass; it would mean you could use the superclass's setter to mutate the
> supposedly-immutable subclass.
My proposal doesn't do that. Client code has no permission to mutate state
via DOMRect.
I am trying to understand what benefit this inheritance hierarchy has over
> a non-hierarchy, and simply can't see one.
>
We can put functionality common to mutable and immutable rects in DOMRect.
Rob
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