On 24 Oct 2013, at 16:22, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> wrote: >> As a side note, I ask whether the `String.prototype.symbolAt >> `/`String.prototype.at` as proposed in a recent thread, >> and the `String.prototype[@@iterator]` as currently specified, are really >> what people need, >> or if they would mistakenly use them with the intended meaning of >> `String.prototype.graphemeAt` >> and `String.prototype.graphemes` as discussed in the present message? >> >> Thoughts? > > If we want to make it easier for developers to work with text, we should > offer them functionality at the grapheme cluster level and not distract > everyone with code units and code points. Thanks for making a proposal! I’d welcome grapheme helper methods (even though the ES6 string methods already make it easier to deal with grapheme clusters than ever before), but I strongly disagree the string iterator should be changed. I think the use case of iterating over code points is much more common. Imagine you’re writing a JavaScript library that escapes a given string as an HTML character reference, or as a CSS identifier, or anything else. In those cases, you don’t care about grapheme clusters, you care about code points, cause those are the units you end up escaping individually. _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
