There is also the compat issue with Mootools with String contains... If we decided we needed to rename String contains then it might also impact what we call a similar Array method
Allen On Nov 2, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Erik Arvidsson wrote: > I'll put up a proposal once electricity is back. I'll use the same comparison > as done in maps. > > On Nov 2, 2012 2:03 AM, "Allen Wirfs-Brock" <al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Joshua Bell wrote: > >> Bump. >> >> I don't think Array.prototype.contains ever materialized on the "proposals" >> page, and hasn't shown up in an ES6 draft. >> >> Officially out for ES6, stuck in the queue, or dropped on the floor? > > Probably dropped on the floor, unless somebody can find something about it in > meeting notes. > > It looks to me from scanning just this thread that it was an idea that was > floated here with generally positive responses, but had some unresolved > issues, and nobody ever signed on as champion to write an actual proposal. > > Allen > > > > > > > >> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Allen, thank you for the clarification there >> >> >> Rick >> >> >> On Feb 24, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Rick Waldron wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvids...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> DOM4 added a new interface called DOMStringList for the sole reason >>>> that Array does not have contains. Before this the return type was an >>>> Array of Strings so we could use indexOf, map, forEach etc. Now that >>>> it is using a non Array we lost all of that. >>>> >>>> Wouldn't the return type (or [[Class]]) still be restricted from using >>>> "Array"? >>>> >>>> From 8.6.2 >>>> >>>> The value of the [[Class]] internal property is defined by this >>>> specification for every kind of built-in object. The value of the >>>> [[Class]] internal property of a host object may be any String value >>>> except one of "Arguments", "Array", "Boolean", "Date", "Error", >>>> "Function", "JSON", "Math", "Number", "Object", "RegExp", and "String". >>>> >>>> >>>> So it can't be an "Array" by name, right? >>>> >>> >>> It can be, as long as it really is a ES array. "host object" doesn't mean >>> any object created by the host. It means new kinds of objects created by >>> the host that implement primitive behaviors (generally internal methods) >>> differently from what is specified by the ES spec. >>> >>> So, from the ES perspective, no problem. When I originally asked the >>> question I was thinking more about from the Web IDL perspective. Does Web >>> IDL require things (for example throwing if extra arguments are passed) >>> that ES Arrays do not do. >>> >>> >>> Allen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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