On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > Right now, attribute getters always get prefixed with "Get" in the WebIDL > bindings. So "readonly attribute long foo" becomes "int32_t GetFoo()" in > the C++. > > Would it make sense to drop the Get in certain cases? In particular, in > cases in which: > > 1) The getter is infallible. > 2) The return value is not returned via an outparam. > 3) The return value is not an interface type or is not nullable. > > So this IDL: > > readonly attribute long foo; > readonly attribute Iface bar; > readonly attribute Iface? baz;
What would readonly attribute long? bin; compile into? If it compiles into something called GetBin then we'd have a nice consistency that any getters for nullable types are named GetX and any getters for non-nullable types are named X. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
