Hi,

> Maybe filter should be an alias of findall for arrays, but shouldn't
> it really return a hash for hashes?

FWIW (and it ain't much, I'm not a decision maker on Prototype stuff),
in my opinion it would be an _extremely_ bad idea for Hash to break
the contract documented for Enumerable.

> ...in ruby, which Prototype is supposed to be modeled after.

Prototype has been split off from Ruby for a long time now.  I'd
venture to say that most people using Prototype do not use and may
well never have even seen Ruby.  PHP seems to be the server-side
language I see most in code snippets from people asking questions.
--
T.J. Crowder
tj / crowder software / com
Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available


On Feb 3, 2:04 pm, disccomp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe filter should be an alias of findall for arrays, but shouldn't
> it really return a hash for hashes? Especially if thats its behavior
> in ruby, which Prototype is supposed to be modeled after.
>
> On Feb 3, 4:59 am, "T.J. Crowder" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Brad,
>
> > Sorry, I missed that Hash inherits from Enumerable (and I've filed a
> > doc bug on it[1] and will fix it -- the doc page for Hash doesn't
> > mention Enumerable).
>
> > So I think that's your answer:  Hash#filter is an alias for
> > Enumerable#findAll[2], which is documented as returning an array, not
> > a Hash, and so having it return a Hash would be breaking the contract.
>
> > [1]http://prototype.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8886-prototype/tickets/535
> > [2]http://prototypejs.org/api/enumerable/findall
>
> > Sorry again to have missed the Enumerable thing in the first place.
> > --
> > T.J. Crowder
> > tj / crowder software / com
> > Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available
>
> > On Feb 3, 12:25 am, Brad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > It does. Hash still inherits from Enumerable, hence the usage of
> > > Hash#findAll().
>
> > > - Brad
>
> > > On Feb 2, 1:34 am, ColinFine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > On Jan 31, 11:11 pm, Brad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Yup, found it -http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3592
>
> > > > > It is indeed a bug in Prototype that hasn't been addressed.
>
> > > > > - Brad
>
> > > > But it seems to me that it's gone away, because Hash no longer mixes
> > > > in Enumerable, does it?
>
> > > > Colin
>
>
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