On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:26 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >> > Wouldn't it make more sense to have a registry of vendor-specific constants on >> > the wiki page? >> >> That doesn't seem necessary. It also implies that vendors (including >> the many small browser and non-browser impls) need to coordinate on >> their number groups, while choosing an arbitrary 5-hexit prefix gives >> you a very reasonable chance of avoiding collisions. (Assuming you >> choose the prefix randomly, we should be able to support several >> million impls before collisions become likely.) > > Huh? The wiki page is just what you describe, a simple form of > coordination. Choosing an arbitrary 5-hexit prefix is cute but a > recipe for lots of typos in people's code. Keep it simple, don't make > me think, yadda yadda. Whose code? Nobody should ever be typing numeric constants, right? The only reason they exist is because of tradition from languages that don't have interned strings, or something. ~TJReceived on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 01:34:18 UTC
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