On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought of that. However, I found it a bit strange that passing this > function a view onto bytes [256, 512] of a 1024-byte buffer would detach the > entire 1024-byte buffer. What do you think?
It's a good point. I figured most callers will have allocated the buffer themselves, most will only have one view into it at a time, and most will ask for the whole thing to be filled; and by "most" I really mean somewhere over 99.9%. Skimming your gist seemed to sort of confirm my hunch, but don't take my word for it -- that's all the research I did. All I know is, I've known about Python's [file.readinto() method](https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/io.html#io.RawIOBase.readinto) for at least 15 years and never yet had a need for it. Would it make it seem less strange if you specified the argument as a "dictionary" with these properties: {buffer:, byteOffset:, byteLength:, constructor:} ...and then casually mention that DataViews and TypedArrays both happen to quack in just this way? -j _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
