On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Dave Massy wrote:
Moving to [email protected]
I don't think we are tied to a particular name for this, I think
getElementsByGroupOfSelectors might be a little excessive :)
However we'd just like the name to more clearly reflect the
functionality rather than a generic sounding matchAll() which isn't
really intended for generic use. It's our belief that it is
important for names to reflect what they do where possible. Having
a short name might save us all a few keystrokes but it is less
clear to developers what the call is doing and can create bigger
problems.
I think a short but clear name would be select(). Unfortunately that
is taken by Microsoft's nonstandard XPath API. match() seems like a
decent next-best choice. The idea is to make this a common idiom with
a convenient name so people don't have to go to crazy lengths like
making $() or $$() functions to avoid using it.
Regards,
Maciej
