Re: Returning dictionaries in WebIDL

Martin Thomson: > I know that this is not good practice, but is there something written > down somewhere explaining why? I don’t know if it’s written down somewhere. Using dictionary types for IDL attributes is forbidden by the spec, because it would mean that a new copy of the object would need

Re: Returning dictionaries in WebIDL

Yep, thanks for that. I somehow missed the bit where it says, very clearly, that attributes MUST NOT be dictionaries. I was looking for something to give someone else who doesn't like explanations and prefers reading from the scripture. Your explanation matches my understanding. BTW, there are

Re: Returning dictionaries in WebIDL

On 2/14/16 5:50 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: I know that this is not good practice It really depends. There are some situations in which returning a dictionary is probably fine; ideally when what's meant is "a copy of the initialization data for this object". This is the situation with

Returning dictionaries in WebIDL

I know that this is not good practice, but is there something written down somewhere explaining why? ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform