Food for thought: 1. We would like to completely decouple native and host objects in the LANG section for version 1.7.
`setTimeout` and `setInterval` are host objects... 2. We're planning strict ES 5 compliance of enumerables for 1.7. that implies removing $break. Best, Tobie On Aug 27, 5:29 pm, "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com> wrote: > Hey Robert, > > It's true, I was thinking in terms of deprecating PE at some > stage... :-) > > Re #2: Using #bind at least doubles the call overhead, which I'm not a > fan of generally. > > > ...have it "throw $break"! > > Now that is a very smart idea. > -- > T.J. Crowder > tj / crowder software / com > > On Aug 27, 4:13 pm, Robert Kieffer <bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > @TJ... > > > Your goals sound about right. Implicit in there, I think, is "make it easy > > to deprecate PE at some later date". At least, that's how I read it. :) > > > Re: #2 - Why not just use bind() to provide context? I've never been a fan > > of overloading arguments with multiple interpretations. 'Gets too > > confusing, and makes the implementation that much uglier. > > > Re: #4 - I feel the ability to self-stop is more important than being able > > to repeat() functions that aren't designed for it. I _really_ feel that > > making the self-stop behavior an optional add-on feature of PE is a bad > > idea. self-stop is an elegant pattern (IMHO) so forcing users to go through > > the awkward PE API to get at it doesn't make sense. Also, it makes > > deprecating PE harder. > > > ***Hmm...*** How about this as a solution: Instead of having a function > > return false to stop, have it "throw $break"! I think that addresses your > > concern, and is consistent with how Prototype does this sort of thing > > elsewhere (in Enumerable). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-core-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
