T_T Nooooooo... no more ambiguous names... We already have .toggle!
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
Gilles wrote:
> yeah sounds good and you can get disconnect which is nice and not much
> longer too.
>
> On Jul 21, 5:10 pm, Peter Higgins <phigg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I like $.connect(ev, fn) ;)
>>
>> Gilles wrote:
>>
>>> If the all name is still around then it is ok, it's just sometimes in
>>> the past changes where made that would not support earlier ways of
>>> doing thing which lead to plugins no longer working. If it's more an
>>> alias that is created than I am up for it.
>>>
>>> I like Daniel's idea of event(), couldn't make more sense than that
>>> really :)
>>>
>>> On Jul 20, 11:03 am, Már <mar.orlygs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> jQuery(someElement).bind('click', someFunction.bind(this));
>>>>>
>>>> I think as `Function.prototype.bind` becomes more mainstream (years
>>>> from now) this will indeed become common cause of confusuion for
>>>> jQuery newcomers.
>>>>
>>>> However, all mature libraries are bound have their share of
>>>> idiosyncratic/lame-duck legacy naming baggage to confuse newcomers.
>>>>
>>>> jQuery has a couple or so already:
>>>> * `$.fn.load()` has fundamentally different semantics depending on
>>>> the arguments you feed it.
>>>> * `$.fn.remove()` is not a normal `removeChild()`, but actually a
>>>> "destroy" method.
>>>> * etc.
>>>>
>>>> ...and it's very difficult to avoid these sort of things completely -
>>>> without either A) clean restart (breaking backwards compatibility) -
>>>> or B) building up a large stack of depricated method names that lie
>>>> "hidden"/forgotten only to spring on unsuspecting developers when they
>>>> least need to have to deal with cryptic bugs in their code.
>>>>
>>>> Design is damn hard.
>>>> ;-)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Már
>>>>
> >
>
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