On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > ES3 and 5 specify Array.prototype.splice such that [1,2,3].splice(1) means > the same thing as [1,2,3].splice(1,0) > > Mozilla documents > (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/splice) > an extended form of splice: > array.splice(index, [howMany, [element1][, ..., elementN]]); // SpiderMonkey > extension > > where [1,2,3].splice(1) essentially means [1,2,3].splice(1, [1,2,3].length) > > Most other browsers also seem to support this extensions. Was it an > oversight that ES5 was not updated to include support for this extended > behavior?
An oversight from the ES3 era, carried forward into ES5 without review that I can recall. > Is there consensus that this is defacto standard behavior that is needed for > interoperability among browsers and that it should be incorporated into > Harmony? I suspect this is a de-facto standard we should codify in Harmony. Thanks for bringing it up. /be > > > Allen > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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