Yehuda Katz
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yehuda Katz wrote:
>
>>
>>     * get/set accessor may have effects on 'set' (see the DOM) but
>>     only on the receiver object (and unobservably, any children that
>>     become garbage, e.g. when trimming .length on an array-like).
>>
>>
>> DOM methods like `innerHTML=` seem to violate this particular wording
>> (but perhaps not the spirit?)
>>
>
> Definitely the spirit!
>
> That's one of those "children become garbage" cases, unless I
> misunderstand your point. "The receiver" for .innerHTML includes all
> descendants.


Yeah that makes sense, although the exact side-effects might be more
observable with DOM. Relatedly, are we specifically exempting
Object.observe and DOM Mutation observers from the "observability"
requirement?


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