- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:33:24 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > Theoretically, if you have an object implemented in Perl (e.g.), you can > define it in such a way that any method call results in a lookup, the > lookup being potentially arbitrary code such as asking a remote site, > checking the results of a random number, etc. An object in pure Perl > typically isn't explicitly labelled as being "an SVGMatrix", it just > happens to act like one. Or doesn't. Or acts like one for a bit then stops > acting like one half way through... Precisely. More pertinently to the web, and a lot less theoretically, ECMAScript objects act in very like fashion. -Boris
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