On May 13, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote: > This is difficult to do, given the goals of typed arrays -- they wouldn't > behave like normal Arrays in most meaningful ways.
Sounds like a bug to be fixed ;-) > At the core, an ArrayBuffer is of fixed size, and it doesn't make sense to > index an ArrayBuffer directly (because there's no indication of what format > the data should be accessed in). Making the array view types instances of > Array might work, but again given that they're fixed length, there's a > significant difference there. That the length property of a particular array subclass leaves the constructor non-configurable and read-only isn't much of a trick in ES5. That said, why *doesn't* TypedArray spec a mutable variant? Surely it'd be useful. Regards -- Alex Russell [email protected] [email protected] BE03 E88D EABB 2116 CC49 8259 CF78 E242 59C3 9723 _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
