I am probably very late to the game but I just read about harmonies
“Array.prototype.find” and found that it might be worth considering a change in
way it works. Its not a drastic change but it would break the compatibility to
the current setup. I understand that the chances for this going through will be
slim but since I would like to give it a shot anyways:
Currently the API uses a callback function that has to return a boolean to
identify the item that has been found. This is good because find & findIndex
can use the same methods but it also has a drawback.
Problem: Say you have a list of items that need to be processed before you know
if you “found” the item. Then you will need to process the last item again
since there is no way to “keep” the result (A) of the find method or you
preprocess all items using map (B) that will require to process all the items
even if the first one already matches.
Example:
(BASE)
var files = [“main.md”, “backup.md”]
var base = “/my/root"
(A)
// Specifies `path.resolve` on two places
var found = files.find(function (file) {
return fs.existsSync(path.resolve(base, file))
}))
if (found)
found = path.resolve(base, file)
(B)
// Runs `path.resolve` for all items
var found = files.map(function (file) {
return path.resolve(base, file)
}).find(fs.existsSync)
Proposal (C): I think it might be interesting to have a change of the signature
so that the return value is not true/false but the value that actually will be
returned (not undefined):
(C)
var found = files.find(function (file) {
file = path.resolve(base, file)
if(fs.existsSync(file))
return file
});
This way the operations would be minimised, it is still few to write and it
would make life a bit easier.
yours
Martin Heidegger
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