On Dec 14, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:58:16 +0530, Maciej Stachowiak
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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.
I can live with something like matchSelector / matchAllSelectors if
that would solve the problem (I am also happy with the current
names). But I am really not interested in a long discussion about
the name - at the end of the day we are almost guaranteed to pick
something not quite right, so let's do that early in the morning
and spend the day doing real work...
I can live with the current names in the document.
Cheers,
Maciej
