On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:33 AM, David Levin <levin@chromium.org> wrote: > >> Making people use a helper function like that is just making them jump an >>> unnecessary hoop. >>> >> >> It makes them jump through another hoop to potentially misuse the api. >> > > No, it's another hoop that *everyone* has to jump through to use the API at > all, so code you write in browser N+1 would also work in browser N where > fewer classes support transfer. > I do understand Glenn's point about convenience, but I generally strongly prefer APIs that throw exceptions when passed unsupported arguments over APIs that silently ignore those arguments.
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