On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Of course, all the other "array extras" are specified with a thisArg so
> consistency argues that reduce and reduceRight should be specified that way
> too.
> I had to remind myself of Dave's analysis/argument, cited in full above, to
> see why we didn't do that.
What exactly was Dave's argument for not including a thisArg? There's
a brief mention of multiple-optional-args-messiness, and then it talks
about a future where other "array extras" don't have a thisArg.
> So this would mean reduce takes one callback argument and two optional
> arguments: thisObject and init.
> Alternatively, we could just eliminate that extra "thisObject" argument,
> arr.map(function(x,i,me) { return obj.method(x,i.me) })
vs arr.map(method.bind(obj) vs arr.map(method, obj)
> At this point I would rather we stand on precedent than waver or haver
> further.
Reasonable. (I'll just probably end up using bind for all the other
array extras ;))
Ed
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