Re: ReSpec / IDL / iterable

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> On 31/05/2016 17:33, Mark Watson wrote:
> > ReSpec adds the following
> > ​paragraph
> >  for interfaces with an iterable declaration:
> >
> > /This interface has "entries", "keys", "values" and @@iterator methods
> > brought by iterable./
> >
> > However, WebIDL now also specifies the "forEach" method.
> >
> > I can't find anywhere in the ReSpec source where it adds this sentence,
> > otherwise I would have provided a Pull Request.
>
> https://github.com/w3c/respec/blob/develop/js/core/webidl-oldschool.js#L756


​Ah, I was looking in the wrong repo. https://www.w3.org/respec/dev.html
links to the wrong one.​

So, here you are: https://github.com/w3c/respec/pull/804


>
> > I know Old School IDL is deprecated, but we do not have time to fix that
> > for our specification right now.
>
> FWIW, I have set up a script that enables to convert mostly
> automatically from -oldschool to -contiguous:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2015OctDec/0070.html
>
> If that's of interest, we can discuss off list to see if it would apply
> to your spec as well.
>

​Thanks! We are in a sprint to get substantive issues done in the coming
weeks, but after that perhaps we will have time for this.

...Mark​



>
> Dom
>