Re: IndexedDB: Syntax for specifying persistent/temporary storage

On 12/6/13 1:29 PM, Joshua Bell wrote:
>    // Throws TypeError on older implementations since Dictionary won't
> coerce to Number (?)

Sure it will.  It'll do ToNumber() and probably end up NaN (which 
becomes 0 as an unsigned long long) unless your object has a valueOf 
method that returns something interesting.

> I don't think overloading has many proponents at the moment, though.

Sure; in practice this would be done as a union type, not overloading. 
That still has the same "how do I tell?" issue, of course.

> other options are a different method name, or passing |undefined| as the
> version, neither of which are great. Allowing null/undefined/0/falsy to
> mean "current version" wouldn't be too terrible, though, and isn't a
> compat concern since it explicitly throws today.

It sure doesn't.  null and 0 are perfectly fine values for an unsigned 
long long (null becomes 0 after ToNumber()).  undefined is treated as 
not passed.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 6 December 2013 19:09:38 UTC