- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:52:11 +0200
- To: "Andrew Oakley" <andrew@ado.is-a-geek.net>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:03:31 +0200, Andrew Oakley
<andrew@ado.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> Simon Pieters wrote:
>> What should happen when you assign something to a constant? e.g.:
>> Node.ELEMENT_NODE = 'Hello world';
>> Web IDL doesn't say, AFAICT. Firefox and Opera allow the assignment.
>> In WebKit it silently fails. I had expected an exception to be thrown,
>> just like for readonly attributes.
>> It'd be good if this was defined.
>>
>
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/Binding4DOM/#es-constants says the
> property has attributes { DontDelete }. That would imply that it
> doesn't have the ReadOnly attribute, and as such the assignment should
> be allowed.
Ok, good that it is defined.
But is there a good reason why it is this way rather than what I'd
expected (same as readonly attributes)? I think authors should be able to
rely on constants being, um, constant. No?
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Friday, 13 June 2008 11:52:54 UTC