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TypedArray - ES6 note is duplicated

Open vimirage opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Examples

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

This very well may be a non-issue, but I observed that the first example is duplicated in each subclass constructors' documentation, e.g. see /docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Int8Array/Int8Array#description.

For clarification, it is in the MDN URL referenced above, and each of the constructors' pages

What did you expect to see?

It makes sense to be duplicated across all of the constructors, or put in the global page, but unnecessarily duplicated into both?

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

No response

Do you have anything more you want to share?

I do suppose that this is related to #18002.

This was also reworded in #18707 (cc @Josh-Cena), so if this note is being kept, we may want to reword it too..?

MDN metadata

Page report details
  • Folder: en-us/web/javascript/reference/global_objects/typedarray
  • MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray
  • GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/javascript/reference/global_objects/typedarray/index.md
  • Last commit: https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/2e2eab54121a9f521d5ea9438c635a76dfdfe255
  • Document last modified: 2022-07-22T09:29:58.000Z

vimirage avatar Jul 25 '22 06:07 vimirage

I'm okay with duplicating it in both places, or removing it from the TypedArray page, but I don't have great ideas about how to do this before #18002 either.

Josh-Cena avatar Jul 27 '22 13:07 Josh-Cena

I don't believe this is an issue. I believe this was done for the sake of clarification or a cordial reminder.

Isaac108 avatar Aug 03 '22 02:08 Isaac108

It doesn't have to be duplicated everywhere now—it has been 6 years since Firefox changed their behavior (while Chrome had never allowed it since typed arrays' introduction), and I doubt a lot of people even know that you used to be able to construct typed arrays without new. Since we have a BCD entry already, it may even make sense to remove it from all places except the generic TypedArray page.

Josh-Cena avatar Aug 03 '22 05:08 Josh-Cena