Yes. Everyone agrees .contains is good. It will happen.

There was some debate about .has vs. .contains, but from what I recall I was 
one of the only people pushing for .has, and I have since changed my mind.

I am hopeful in fact that .contains is so simple and uncontroversial that we 
can push it through the post-ES6 spec process very quickly, including into 
implementations.

From: es-discuss [mailto:es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Will Ray
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:42
To: Maël Nison
Cc: Brendan Eich; es-discuss@mozilla.org
Subject: Re: Array.prototype.contains

Additionally, .contains() can be used in a conditional statement directly, 
while .indexOf() requires the result of a comparison with -1 (or a bitwise 
inversion, which is not terribly intuitive). It's just more room for simple 
typos.

Will Ray

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:29 AM, Maël Nison 
<nison.m...@gmail.com<mailto:nison.m...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Isn't replacing DOMStringList a different issue than adding 
Array.prototype.contains ?

Using indexOf is possible, but a .contains() method would give a stronger 
notice of intent when reading code.

On 7 March 2014 15:11, Boris Zbarsky 
<bzbar...@mit.edu<mailto:bzbar...@mit.edu>> wrote:
On 3/6/14 6:15 PM, Joshua Bell wrote:
FWIW, Blink uses DOMStringList only in IndexedDB and apparently in
Location.ancestorOrigins

Indeed.  And Location.ancestorOrigins is fairly new and not broadly 
implemented, so I don't expect its behavior to be a strong compat constraint.

So I guess that leaves us with a few questions:

1)  Is it still early enough in the indexeddb world that we can change the 
thing it uses from DOMStringList to Array.  And if so whether that's a change 
we want to make.

2)  If we want to keep the non-writing behavior for indexeddb or for some other 
reason (insufficiently flexible bindings systems?) can't switch ti to Array for 
now, can we just remove item() and contains() from DOMStringList to make the 
switch easier later?


-Boris
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