[whatwg] API for encoding/decoding ArrayBuffers into text

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Mon Mar 26 14:42:17 PDT 2012


On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:56:41 +0100, Joshua Bell <jsbell at chromium.org>  
wrote:
> Bikeshed: The |continues| term doesn't completely thrill me; it's clear  
> in context, but not necessarily what someone might go searching for.
> {eof:true} would be lovely except we want the default to be yes-EOF but a
> falsy JS value. |noEOF| ?

Peter Beverloo suggests "stream" on IRC. I like it.


> Opinions on one object type (Encoding) vs. two (Encoder, Decoder) ?

Two seems cleaner.


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