Re: [whatwg] StringEncoding: encode() return type looks weird in the IDL from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-08-05 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from August 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:44:59 -0400
To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <501EB11B.1070501@mit.edu>

On 8/5/12 1:39 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> I didn't say it was extensibility, just a leftover from something that
> was either considered and dropped or forgotten about.

Oh, I see.  I thought you were talking about leaving the return value 
as-is so that Uint16Array return values can be added later.

I'd vote for changing the return type to Uint8Array as things stand, and 
if we ever change what the function can return, we change the return 
type at that point.

-Boris

Received on Sunday, 5 August 2012 17:45:31 UTC