On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder what was the use case that convinced TC39 to return `this` with
> these methods.
Assuming you read the notes, I proposed the agenda item based on the best
practice of ensuring meaningful returns, and in the case of mutation
methods, |this| is a meaningful return.
> Accordingly, this will never work:
> var query = map.has('queried') ? map.get('queried') :
> map.set('queried', $('myquery'));
>
Previously, map.set() had a useless void return...
>
> And it will be something like:
> var query = map.has('queried') ? map.get('queried') :
> map.set('queried', $('myquery')).get('queried');
>
> which is ugly and I don't really understand where map.set(k0, v0).set(k1,
> v1).set(k2, v2) could be useful.
>
Accessing the object post-mutation allows for more expressive use of the
API.
Rick
> Thanks for clarifications ( a use case would be already good )
>
> br
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