I'd say there's no clear model for consistenty, e.g. JSON.parse. One could argue that the template is that anything which has only one way to parse is to use `parse`. Numbers have more than one way (`parseInt`, `parseFloat`)
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Dmitry Soshnikov < dmitry.soshni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:57 AM, T.J. Crowder < > tj.crow...@farsightsoftware.com> wrote: > >> Any reason for not just using `Boolean.parse`? (Rather than repeating >> `Boolean` in the function name?) >> >>> >>> > Just a copy-paste from Java, similarly was done with `parseInt` taken from > Java. But just `parse` probably would work too. For consistency and > predictability `parseBoolean` is probably better now. > > Dmitry > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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