- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:29:46 +0200
- To: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>, DOM mailing list <www-dom@w3.org>
On Jun 29, 2006, at 22:12, Joseph Kesselman wrote:
> We didn't do optional arguments for the same reasons we didn't do some
> other things in the DOM: they aren't supported in enough languages
> that
> they really belong in the core/portable/standardized specification.
Given that they can be mapped naturally onto Javascript and Java (and
a bunch of others), and given that language-specific bindings can
override that to make them required if it's really needed, I don't
see why we shouldn't have them.
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:30:08 UTC