On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Kevin Smith <khs4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not to backtrack the conversation, but I'm not convinced that "delete"
> should be used to remove an element. Noone's going to ask me, "how do I
> delete an element from the set?". They're going to ask me, "how do I
> remove an element?".
That's a good point. Just like noone's going to ask "how do I put an
element".
add : remove :: put : delete
> Also, I'm currently suspicious of any parallels between deleting a
> property and removing an element from a set. The whole point of Set and
> Map is to provide a collection abstraction independent of javascript's
> object model (so as to end the confusion that arises from their
> conflation), correct?
This is a good argument in favor of "clear" as well. You never really want
to "clear" a typical object, it only really makes sense in the context of
collections.
> Plus, syntax-ignorant tokenizers (like the highlighter on the proposal
> page) are going to make delete look pretty weird : )
>
> khs
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Michael A. Smith
> <mich...@smith-li.com>wrote:
>
>> +1 on clear() as it's pithy, understandable, and behaves the same in
>> Java and Python.
>>
>> What real benefit comes from drawing this connection between delete()
>> and deleteAll()? I suspect the everyday programmer won't care, and the
>> ones who do will look it up.
>>
>> -Michael A. Smith
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com>
>> wrote:
>> > clear() is ok. Also, java.util.Map and java.util.Set use clear() so it
>> would
>> > also be familiar to many people.
>> >
>> > Perhaps deleteAll() would be more mnemonic, as its relationship with
>> > delete() would be obvious?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Adam Shannon <a...@ashannon.us>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'd agree with using clear() and isEmpty() with their respective
>> actions.
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 00:37, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Good idea, but I suggest an unambiguous verb instead of an
>> >> > adjective-or-verb: clear.
>> >> >
>> >> > "empty" is often used for the predicate, in naming conventions that
>> >> > eschew
>> >> > "isEmpty" and "emptyp" patterns.
>> >> >
>> >> > /be
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Peter Michaux wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> If some piece of code needs to empty a set, it would be good to do
>> >> >> that in a single call
>> >> >>
>> >> >> set.empty();
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Otherwise we might be left doing the following which could be very
>> >> >> inefficient.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> set.forEach(function(element) {
>> >> >> set['delete'](element);
>> >> >> });
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Peter
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