- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:29:20 +0100
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "public-canvas-api@w3.org" <public-canvas-api@w3.org>, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
* Robert O'Callahan wrote: >On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote: >>> Does this mean that ctx.currentPath != ctx.currentPath? >> >> Yes >> >>> That's bad! >> >> Why would it be bad (apart from being different)? > >It means that currentPath isn't behaving anything like a data member. > >I'm not super familiar with why this became such an important design >principle, but I know that it is one. For example, this is exactly the >reason why the WebIDL spec prohibits attributes from returning dictionaries. https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2013-October/034468.html gives one reason. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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