Re: Web IDL maplike: Allow spec prose to specify how key-type should be compared?

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Mark S. Miller <erights@google.com> wrote:
>> I can see why it may need a prototype. But why does it need a constructor?
>
> From what I'm told, in order to explain how the object was created.
> I.e. to avoid building "magic" into the API.
>
> But maybe there are other ways to do that?

This is a cool discussion, but it's also a complete tangent from the
original thread. ^_^

~TJ