On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > See the thread containing Dean Landolt's dissent on 'length' being the best > name: > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-November/018571.html > > The January 19 2012 meeting notes recorded here: > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-January/019784.html > > include "At next meeting MarkM will present a tiny API proposal for maps and > sets."
In today's practice, iterables are ducktyped by the presence of a "length" property. I don't think an "[implication of] metric topology" matters to basically anyone who's not a huge language-design nerd. ^_^ Additionally, having multiple names for the "size of" property makes it more difficult to learn, and more difficult to create generic code. ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
