- From: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:18:00 -0700
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, es-discuss Steen <es-discuss@mozilla.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, public-webapps@w3.org
I will stop the over-citing madness here and now :-P. The struggle to formalize ArrayLike, which seems like a common goal for ES the core language and for WebIDL's ES bindings, makes me want to give an exception to the "catchalls considered harmful for new interfaces" injunction. I agree that indexing into array-likes, with no liveness magic, seems containable and desirable. ES folks haven't nailed down ArrayLike yet (our fault) and we would benefit from collaboration with WebIDL folks here. So if you are doing more ArrayLike interfaces, let's keep talking. Don't let at least my catchalls-considered-harmful statements stop progress on ArrayLikes. I expect some ES folks may demur now :-). /be
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