On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote: > Then lhs and rhs are switched, though. What is the best description of what > this operator does? “Copy the own properties of an increment to an object”? > Whatever word(s) are chosen as an infix operator should reflect such a > description. “Extend” and even “increment” do not sound descriptive enough to > me. > > More ideas: > > obj <-copy- increment > obj from increment > obj loads increment > obj imports increment > increment to obj > increment increments obj > increment overrides obj
"increment" is confusing here, but I get it -- you mean the rhs in Allen's <& proposal. Best to use "source" or "src", "increment" suggests ++ and misleads. I don't think we should use contextual keywords that aren't verbs for a mutating operator. At this point I think a keyword operator is no better than a built-in method, especially from a built-in module, but even if just Object.extend. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
