[whatwg] CanvasRenderingContext2D with addPath, currentPath

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote:
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>> Does this mean that ctx.currentPath != ctx.currentPath?
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> Yes
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>>  That's bad!
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> Why would it be bad (apart from being different)?
>

It means that currentPath isn't behaving anything like a data member.

I'm not super familiar with why this became such an important design
principle, but I know that it is one. For example, this is exactly the
reason why the WebIDL spec prohibits attributes from returning dictionaries.

Rob
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