On 19 Oct 2013, at 12:15, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoe...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Certainly not common enough to warrant a two-character method on the > native string type. Odds are people will use it incorrectly in an > attempt to make their code look concise […] Are you saying that changing the name to something that is longer than `at` would solve this problem? > […] not understanding that it'll retrieve a substring of .length 1 or 2, > possibly consisting of a lone surrogate, based on a 16 bit index that > might fall in the middle of a character; the problematic cases are > fairly rare, so it's hard to notice improper use of `.at` in automated > testing or in code review. People are using `String.prototype.charAt()` incorrectly too, expecting it to return whole symbols instead of surrogate halves wherever possible. How would _not_ introducing a method that avoids this problem help? _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
