On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Niels Keurentjes < > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > The spec should only concern itself with exposing functionality. Practical > > considerations such as length of code are the responsibility of the > > developer - if you like to have q and qq aliases you can add them yourself > > at runtime, that's the whole point of a prototyped language. Common > > libraries like jQuery, prototype and Mootools expose the behaviour as $ and > > $$ for exactly the reason given, no reason to impose that on every > > developer if they choose not to use a library. > > This is nonsense. Usability and practicality are absolutely concerns of > the spec. If libraries like jQuery need to be used for it to be convenient > to develop for the platform, and everyone has different and incompatible > convenience wrappers for everything, then that's a failure of the platform. > > (I don't think this proposal is a good idea, though.) ^ this.
--tobie
