JS avoids cybercrud names where possible, following Java which followed
Smalltalk. But we do prefer concise verb-only methods where possible (no
Kingdom of Nouns AbstractFactoryFactoryImpl names as in real-world Java;
Smalltalk is better precedent but message selectors can afford to be
more verbose when strung together than a single method name in JS should
be).
So 'del' is too short. We had remove at some point, could go back to it.
That seems like the best all-around name.
Thinking of collection *protocols* with suites of methods that have
canonical names (get, force, set, has, remove) helps.
/be
Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
to me "del" was simply good enough, at least as fallback
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It would be tragic to determine future APIs based on _broken_
implementations of historic/archaic browsers - especially in an
age where the browser isn't the only "client" of the spec.
Rick
On Feb 12, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Andrea Giammarchi
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
+1
had same thoughts when I wrote this:
https://github.com/WebReflection/es6-collections
then I have realized older IE compatibility requires the usage of
the string but I would have rather suggested
del
instead of remove so get, set, has, del ... all 3 chars, no
problems with reserved keywords
br
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Peter Michaux
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The Set proposal has a "delete" method. Old ECMAScript
implementations
do not allow "delete" to appear as a bare method name like
set.delete('foo') and it is necessary to write the awkward
set['delete']('foo'). Because of this and knowing polyfills
will be
written to support Set in older implementations, would it be
better to
choose "remove" as the method name so that set.remove('foo')
can be
written in the older implementations? I think this would save
a lot of
unnecessary debugging for cross-browser programming.
Peter
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