On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Domenic Denicola < [email protected]> wrote:
> Readability or library preference aside, I still think it's bizarre that > > map.set(key, val) > > is analogous to > > (dict[key] = val, dict) > > and not to > > dict[key] = val > > When I'm using a fluent library like jQuery or a configuration DSL like > those in the npm packages surveyed, I can see the attraction of chaining. > But when I am using a basic primitive of the language, I expect uniformity > across primitives. > This argument won't hold when the language doesn't make any such "uniformity" promises, eg. array.push(val); // new length array[ array.length - 1 ] = val; // val Rick
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