> > The only reason I would defend the "reverse" method in strings is because it > makes sense. > I think JavaScript is very intuitive, and, as Arrays do have the "reverse" > method, that simply makes sense to have it in strings as well. >
”Making sense” and ”symmetry of API” is not a sufficient reason, because a string is not ”just” an immutable array of chars. Consider: 1. Some methods defined on arrays only: `find`, `reduce`, `reverse` 2. Some methods defined on strings only: `repeat`, `startsWith` 3. Some methods defined on both arrays and strings with same semantics: `concat`, `slice` 4. Some methods defined on both arrays and strings with different semantics: `includes`, `indexOf` Existence of methods listed in (1), (2) and (4) is a consequence of strings and arrays having different needs. —Claude _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
