Hi Eric, From my experience, folks don’t like adding things to the spec that are very easily implemented (like aliases) in userland. All you’d need is a `Math.roundUp = Math.ceil` to start using the code you want.
Regards, Rob > On 4 Aug 2018, at 23:55, Eric Andrew Lewis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi there, > > this is my first message to the list. Thanks for all that you do to improve > the programming language for the web! > > This is probably a curious proposal that will go nowhere but I thought it'd > be interesting to share a suggestion and see how it goes. > > I teach introductory JavaScript. Students have a hard time remembering the > method name Math.ceil(). It looks like the name "ceil" dates back to at least > the C programming language, and probably earlier. > > I suggest introducing Math.roundUp() as an alias for Math.ceil() to provide > an easier to read and remember method name. If this makes sense, introducing > Math.roundDown() might be a good alias for Math.floor() as well. > > I searched for previous discussions on creating method name aliases and > couldn't find one to see how the committee has made decisions about them in > the past. > > Thanks, > -- > Eric Lewis > ericandrewlewis.com
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