Rick Waldron wrote:
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Re
https://github.com/rwldrn/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2013-07/july-23.md#42-add-fill-and-copyslice-methods-to-arrayprototype-and-typed-arrays
From the notes, it's unclear whether there was consensus on using
the name "copyWithin" in place of "copySlice". My recollection is
that "copyWithin" was generally preferred by those at in the
discussion. Does anyone else remember?
When I went to file this as a bug, I realized that we held off
recording a consensus (waiting for Brendan's input), but we never came
back to it.
I will try to avoid missing even a day of TC39, it clearly has taken
some toll! ;-)
Given the in-place |this|-mutating update done by copyWithin, I'm ok
with the name. But it seems to suggest "within current [0, length)
bounds" -- i.e., no extension of the |this| arraylike. Yet it can of
course extend.
In contrast, "fill" takes optional slice parameters but has a short
name. Perhaps we would be better with either
copy : fill :: copySlice : fillSlice
Thoughts? Naming is hard, let's not rush it. One more round of bikeshed
paint-color debate!
/be
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