On Jun 29, 2006, at 22:12, Joseph Kesselman wrote:
We didn't do optional arguments for the same reasons we didn't do some
other things in the DOM: they aren't supported in enough languages
that
they really belong in the core/portable/standardized specification.
Given that they can be mapped naturally onto Javascript and Java (and
a bunch of others), and given that language-specific bindings can
override that to make them required if it's really needed, I don't
see why we shouldn't have them.
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Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
