'deleteProperty' was in fact originally called 'delete'. We changed it to avoid a conflict with the keyword, which occurs when importing the function (recall that the Reflect.* methods are actually functions exported from a module). While ES5 made it possible to use keywords as properties, you obviously still can't use keywords as ordinary function names.
defineProperty is by symmetry with the existing Object.defineProperty built-in. I believe the symmetry is more important than a shorter name. Cheers, Tom 2014/1/3 Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> > It seems like it would be nicer to change the former to define and > delete, respectively? > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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