On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Dean Landolt wrote: > Who can resist such a juicy bikeshed...
Yup. > Just wanted to jump in and say non-writable length is consistent with String > behavior as well, but David makes a good point about length implying metric > topology. David's suggestion of `count` is nice. ISTM what we're talking > about is `cardinality`, but no need to get too silly w/ precision. Though > `size` is just fine with me, and has plenty of prior art. No one wanted anything as long as card... There was a large cohort in favor of count, I thought. Some were ok with size. > Whatever name is chosen I'd prefer it be something other than `length`, and > for it to also exist on Array.prototype as a read-only property returning > this.length. This way this new property becomes the new `length` for every > "compound" type, whether it be an object, array, string, map, set, etc. And > `length` would remain for all sequence (numerically-indexed) types. Agreed emphatically. I like count best at the moment. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
