This is a bit awkward. We lazily set mName to the transition property and then
return it. The reasons for this approach are:
* We don't really want to eagerly fill in mName for all transitions since in
99% of cases we'll never use it and this will lead to wasted allocations.
* The signature of Name() returns a const nsString reference. This is because
Name() is used when building CSS Animations (to compare different copies of
the same animation when updating). For that case we don't really want to
generate unnecessary copies of nsString objects so we return a reference.
However, that means for transitions as well we need to return a reference so
we can't just generate a temporary string on-demand.
As a result we also have to const-cast ourselves so we can update the mName
member. We could make mName mutable but seeing as it's only set once, the
const_cast seems more appropriate.
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