- From: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:37:30 +0000
- To: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Cc: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, public-script-coord@w3.org, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
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>> (trimming cc as originally requested)
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>> Le mercredi 15 février 2012 à 17:05 +0000, Marcos Caceres a écrit :
>> > > There are strong ties, in the sense that the said API would be exposing
>> > > a readyState property (similar to XMLHttpRequest, HTMLMedia, etc).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm not sure there is any relationship to the internal state of an
>> > object and using object.SOME_HARD_TO_REMEMBER_AND_TYPE_THING…
>> > specially when you can just type "thing".
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>> That's not the point; the point is that if we use strings for a
>> readyState property in one API, and numeric values in many others, we
>> would have scripts that have code that looks like:
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>> if (XHR.readyState == 4) {
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>> }
>> if (P2P.readyState == "done") {
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>> }
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>> That seems utterly confusing, hard to remember, hard to teach, etc.
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> Not to me (or those working on WebIDL, hence the warning in the spec): "done" makes more sense than "4".
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> Here is a real example of how ridiculously stupid the use of constants can get:
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> var msg = deviceapis.messaging.createMessage(deviceapis.messaging.TYPE_SMS);
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> Um… compared to:
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> var msg = deviceapis.messaging.createMessage("sms");
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> Nuff said.
+1
Received on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:38:31 UTC