Re: [WebIDL] Assigning to constants

• From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
• Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:41:54 +0200
• To: "Cameron McCormack" <cam@mcc.id.au>, public-webapps@w3.org
• Message-ID: <op.ucudj4r0idj3kv@zcorpandell.linkoping.osa>

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:02:05 +0200, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>  
wrote:

> Simon Pieters:
>> 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.
>
> Changed to be { DontDelete, ReadOnly } (but still no exception thrown).
>
>   http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/Binding4DOM/Overview.html.diff?r1=1.76&r2=1.77&f=h

Thanks.

I'm not sure what the implications are, though; are they also readonly in  
the following cases?

    Node.prototype.ELEMENT_NODE = 'Hello world';
    Element.prototype.ELEMENT_NODE = 'Hello world';
    document.documentElement.ELEMENT_NODE = 'Hello world';

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Monday, 16 June 2008 12:42:47 UTC