On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:03:31 +0200, Andrew Oakley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Simon Pieters wrote:
What should happen when you assign something to a constant? e.g.:
Node.ELEMENT_NODE = 'Hello world';
Web IDL doesn't say, AFAICT. Firefox and Opera allow the assignment.
In WebKit it silently fails. I had expected an exception to be thrown,
just like for readonly attributes.
It'd be good if this was defined.
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/Binding4DOM/#es-constants says the
property has attributes { DontDelete }. That would imply that it
doesn't have the ReadOnly attribute, and as such the assignment should
be allowed.
Ok, good that it is defined.
But is there a good reason why it is this way rather than what I'd
expected (same as readonly attributes)? I think authors should be able to
rely on constants being, um, constant. No?
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
