On 1 March 2011 09:33, Angus Croll <[email protected]> wrote: > But why is hasOwnProperty application and getOwnPropertyNames meta? > Both naming (keys vs. GetOwnPropertyNames) and layering seems somewhat > arbitrary and may be as much influenced by whose method they were > inspired by (e.g. Prototype.js) and which participant was driving a > particular decision than anything else. End result feels somewhat > Balkanized > > To me, this is exactly the reason why languages benefit from having something like Python's BDFL. That way you avoid all this design-by-committee inconsistency.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good stuff coming in ES5, but I kinda wish BE could perform some kind of military coup over the committee - that would be awesome. -- Nick Morgan http://skilldrick.co.uk @skilldrick <http://twitter.com/skilldrick> -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
