"Anne van Kesteren" <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:56:42 +0200, Max Froumentin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> The grammar in http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/ prevents >> declarations such as: >> >> const DOMString foo = "bar"; >> >> because the "ConstExp" rule [1] only allows a number, or "TRUE" or >> "FALSE". Is it an omission? > > What is the use case? Web APIs usually work with numbers (if they have > constants at all).
I was wondering that too. But if there are no use cases, then the spec should be changed to disallow "const DOMString foo;". I'd disallow boolean too, in fact, but leave number constants. Max.
