I was talking about shims. PEter
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Oliver Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Are the Set, Map, etc types going to be implemented in any engine that > doesn't already have ES5 unreserved property name semantics? > > Or are we talking about implementing shims in non-ES6 engines (and so > possibly ES<5)? > > --Oliver > > On Feb 12, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > >> Agreed, my "remove is the best all-around name" was biased toward the past. >> We can hang tough. This isn't a huge hardship. Indeed way back in 1996 when >> Nick Thompson and I connected JS and Java at Netscape, some Java APIs >> required, e.g. file['delete']() instead of file.delete(). I wish I had not >> reserved property names in '95. Fixed in ES5! >> >> /be >> >> Mark S. Miller wrote: >>> I feel strongly that "delete" is the right name for this. Currently, all >>> the method names (get, set, has, delete) relate directly to the names >>> associated with these operations when applied to properties, making them >>> more mnemonic. >>> >>> The need to say collection['delete'](...) rather than >>> collection.delete(...) is only a temporary measure until the ES3 browsers >>> fade out enough to either 1) be ignored, or 2) be supported only as the >>> target of an ES5/6 -> ES3 translation. Granted this will take years. But >>> we'll be living with these choices for many more years after that. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:11 PM, 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> es-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> --MarkM >>> _______________________________________________ >>> es-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
