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Re: JavaScript + DOM, type system

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Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> wrote on 20 Nov 2020 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> On 20/11/2020 1:47 pm, Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 5:02:02 PM UTC-6, Evertjan. wrote:
>>> r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote on 19 Nov 2020 in
>>> comp.lang.javascript:
>>>
>>>> When "a" is an element,
>>>>
>>>> a.textContent = 4
>>>>
>>>> seems to behave like
>>>>
>>>> a.textContent = "4"
>>>>
>>>> , but is there any specification giving the meaning of the
>>>> assignment of a number of JavaScript to the textContent
>>>> attribute of the DOM?
>>>
>>> The text-content of a Dom-node must be a string, logic says.
>> 
>> Right, and if that wasn't enough there is MDN:
>> 
>> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/textContent>
>> 
>> and the IDL:
>> 
>> <https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/idl-definitions.html>
>> 
>> depending on how formal one wants an answer
> 
> I thought he was asking, why does a number get changed to, the 
> equivalent of, the number + "" and not, I presume, return some sort of 
> error.

Bbbut ...

Everything, that is written as text, must be a formatted string.

It confused me, long time ago, in Algol, why you needed always to specify 
the format of an output to a printing device.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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Re: JavaScript + DOM, type system "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-11-20 00:01 +0100
  Re: JavaScript + DOM, type system "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-11-19 18:47 -0800
    Re: JavaScript + DOM, type system Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2020-11-20 16:29 +1100
      Re: JavaScript + DOM, type system "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-11-20 14:46 +0100
        Re: JavaScript + DOM, type system JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2020-11-21 14:47 +0700
          Re: JavaScript + DOM, type system Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-11-21 23:27 +0100
            Re: JavaScript + DOM, type system "sc...@sauyet.com" <scott@sauyet.com> - 2020-12-02 11:04 -0800

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