On May 22, 2013, at 4:58 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: >> There aren't many Map methods. Write your own workalikes if you need 'em. >> Done. > > Really? You're seriously saying that I, and every other spec author, > every time we need to spec something that's just like a built-in > collection class but has a type restriction or some other little > tweak, should just reinvent Map/Set/whatever? Subclass or wrap, you read that already. Look, you don't add hooks to Array.prototype for NodeList. Same goes for Map. If subclassing gets you some goodies without losing others, ok. > I refuse to believe you're actually saying that, because of how bad it > is for authors. This is a textbook example of elevating theoretical > purity over spec authors and web authors. Rubbish. Put your hooks in your own overrides. Pay for your own lunch. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
