Not to backtrack the conversation, but I'm not convinced that "delete" should be used to remove an element. Noone's going to ask me, "how do I delete an element from the set?". They're going to ask me, "how do I remove an element?". Also, I'm currently suspicious of any parallels between deleting a property and removing an element from a set. The whole point of Set and Map is to provide a collection abstraction independent of javascript's object model (so as to end the confusion that arises from their conflation), correct?
Plus, syntax-ignorant tokenizers (like the highlighter on the proposal page) are going to make delete look pretty weird : ) khs On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Michael A. Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > +1 on clear() as it's pithy, understandable, and behaves the same in > Java and Python. > > What real benefit comes from drawing this connection between delete() > and deleteAll()? I suspect the everyday programmer won't care, and the > ones who do will look it up. > > -Michael A. Smith > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > clear() is ok. Also, java.util.Map and java.util.Set use clear() so it > would > > also be familiar to many people. > > > > Perhaps deleteAll() would be more mnemonic, as its relationship with > > delete() would be obvious? > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Adam Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I'd agree with using clear() and isEmpty() with their respective > actions. > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 00:37, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Good idea, but I suggest an unambiguous verb instead of an > >> > adjective-or-verb: clear. > >> > > >> > "empty" is often used for the predicate, in naming conventions that > >> > eschew > >> > "isEmpty" and "emptyp" patterns. > >> > > >> > /be > >> > > >> > > >> > Peter Michaux wrote: > >> >> > >> >> If some piece of code needs to empty a set, it would be good to do > >> >> that in a single call > >> >> > >> >> set.empty(); > >> >> > >> >> Otherwise we might be left doing the following which could be very > >> >> inefficient. > >> >> > >> >> set.forEach(function(element) { > >> >> set['delete'](element); > >> >> }); > >> >> > >> >> Peter > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Adam Shannon > >> Developer > >> University of Northern Iowa > >> Sophomore -- Computer Science B.S. & Mathematics > >> http://ashannon.us > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 >
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