- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:48:20 -0700
- To: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>
- 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
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com> wrote: > 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. Sounds great! I don't know of any new interfaces we're designing that are ArrayLike, (unless you count the not-yet-finalized HTML5 and FileAPI specs). But I'm sure more will arrive so support from ES would be great! / Jonas
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