On Jan 9, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Steve Block <stevebl...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> I'm really not sure that this set of changes is going in the right >> direction. What's driving them; some abstract sense of purity, or >> reducing the chances of introducing real bugs that we've seen in the past? > Some of both. I was investigating a bug where WebCore is generating > unexpected negative sizes. While looking into how this could happen, I > noticed that in some cases, negative sizes result from size types > being used to represent things that seem more like points. It seems > like it would be good to clean this up this misuse of size types, and > perhaps in the long term, we can avoid negative sizes altogether, > which would help avoid these kinds of bug in the future. It seems like a lot of churn for relatively little gain. I'd rather our time be focused on areas that actually benefit users of WebKit. Simon _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
