Re: [heycam/webidl] Allow ReturnTypes to have extended attributes associated with them (#342) from Domenic Denicola on 2017-04-12 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from April 2017)

From: Domenic Denicola <notifications@github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:34:19 -0700
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Yeah, this is a follow-up. In #286 you said "ReturnType definitely shouldn't have attributes" but it's not clear exactly why. I guess because no conversion is applied in that direction, for non-callbacks.

However, consider the case of the planned [AllowShared]. It seems weird to have `Uint8Array foo()` operation returning a SharedArrayBuffer-backed Uint8Array. Shouldn't you instead have written `[AllowShared] Uint8Array foo()`?

(The multiple natures of types in Web IDL---documentation vs. conversion helper---strike again.)

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