Re: [heycam/webidl] Allow extended attributes to apply to types (#286)

tobie commented on this pull request.



> @@ -5145,6 +5123,16 @@ is a string, not necessarily unique, that identifies the type.
 Each sub-section below defines what the type name is for each
 type.
 
+Additional types can be created from existing ones by specifying certain
+[=extended attributes=] on the existing types. For example,
+<code>[Clamp] long</code> defines a new type whose behavior is based on
+that of the {{long}} type, but modified as specified by the [{{Clamp}}]
+extended attribute.
+
+The [=type name=] of a type annotated with an [=extended attribute=] is
+the concatenation of the type name of the annotated type and a string
+corresponding to the extended attribute's identifier.
+

Oh, you had LongClamp in mind. I see. I feel like that's counterintuitive, given the syntax is `[Clamp] long`.

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