It wouldn’t be appropriate to drop the extend-types into any old library,
but would it be appropriate to have an adapter library *specifically* to
extend browser types with a reasonable set of interfaces? That way, folks
targeting browsers can use that library and get everything they expect in
one go, while keeping it out of core.

Peter
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Ravindra Jaju <[email protected]>
wrote:

> FWIW, I ran into something similar and this SO post helped me understand
> the rationale
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23616019/why-arent-nodelist-htmlcollection-seqable
>
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> jaju
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Joel Holdbrooks <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, October 2, 2014 1:37:47 AM UTC-7, Marcus Lewis wrote:
>> > => (doseq [file lastFileList] (.-name file))
>> > Error: [object FileList] is not ISeqable
>> >     at Error (native)
>> >     at cljs.core.seq (http://localhost:8080/app.js:3164:67)
>> >
>> > => (doseq [file (array-seq lastFileList)] (.log js/console (.-name
>> file)))
>> >
>> > This works. It logs the filename. In case you're curious, this FileList
>> is coming from drag-drop events)
>> >
>> > Here's the ClojureScript that I would hope would catch this:
>> >       (array? coll)
>> >       (when-not (zero? (alength coll))
>> >         (IndexedSeq. coll 0))
>> >
>> > The resulting js is:
>> >     if (a instanceof Array || "string" === typeof a) {
>> >         return 0 === a.length ? null : new cljs.core.IndexedSeq(a, 0);
>> >     }
>> >
>> > Is there any reason not to make other array-like types ISeqable? I'm
>> sure there are better examples than FileList. For example, the same issue
>> can be seen with HTMLCollection:
>> >
>> > => (seq (.getElementsByTagName js/document.body "div"))
>> > Error: [object HTMLCollection] is not ISeqable
>> >     at Error (native)
>> >     at cljs.core.seq (http://localhost:8080/app.js:3164:67)
>>
>> If you don't want to use extend-type, reify, or specify!, you can use
>> `array-seq`.
>>
>> > (array-seq (js/document.querySelectorAll "span"))
>> (#<[object HTMLSpanElement]> #<[object HTMLSpanElement]> ...)
>>
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