Hyphenate read-only when used as a modifier - #45410
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Description
Hyphenates "read-only" in the 26 places where it modifies a following noun.
Motivation
Used before a noun, "read-only" is a compound modifier and takes a hyphen. The repository already writes it that way about 2780 times, against 75 unhyphenated, so these are outliers rather than a house style.
Sixteen of them are the opening sentence of a
USBDeviceproperty page — "ThedeviceVersionMajorread only property of the …" — where every comparable page inWeb/APIuses "read-only property". The rest are scattered:DeviceMotionEvent.rotationRate("is a read only object"),KeyboardEvent.key,Notification.permission,Performance.measure()("a read only attribute"), the SVG API index ("provide read only access"), and the navigation and resource timings guide.Occurrences inside code are deliberately untouched. In particular
TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'x'is V8's own message text and appears verbatim on the read-only error page,Array.prototype.lengthandsuper.