I agree it's a good name, but how about Object.isIdentical? Wouldn't that follow existing naming conventions more closely?
Juerg On 6 Sep 2010, at 22:45, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Jeff Walden wrote: > >> On 09/05/2010 08:31 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >>>> The strawman has a note where I suggested matching "hashcode" with >>>> "identity" as the method name. If nothing else, the name length and lack >>>> of hackerly abbreviation recommend it. Comments? >>> >>> I would expect a function named "identity" to be a function of one argument >>> that returns it unmodified, rather than a two-argument predicate that >>> implements an equivalence relation. "eq" seems like an ok name. "egal" will >>> probably seem more mysterious than "eq". >> >> Object.identical seems to imply the right things, certainly better than >> Object.identity. To the extent I want to get involved in this paint job, I >> think this is the best shade I've considered. > > Object.identical is a good name. > > - Maciej > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
