Hello Arnar and folks. Sorry for the late response, but i finally had the chance to spend some days off in the snow with skiing.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions! This did help me a lot! I hope that with some more experience i can get way deeper in MochiKit. Regards, Frank On 27 Jan., 04:12, "Arnar Birgisson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/27/07, Tom W.M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >>> var dataArr = new Array(); > > >>> forEach(rData, function(rRow) { > > >>> dataArr.push(values(rRow)); > > >>> }); > > >> Yes there is: var dataArr = map(values, rData); > > > It's a bad idea to use either of these solutions, since JavaScript > > object properties are not ordered. While it may happen to be that the > > keys produced by a ``for (k in o)`` (as in ``keys(o)`` and ``items(o)``) > > loop are produced in a stable order in current browsers, it should not > > be counted on. If some browser changes their implementation, the > > columns in your table may change order or even contain data that belongs > > in other columns. This is also asking for cross-browser differences, as > > different JavaScript implementations are likely to differ on this point. > > > You should incorporate an array of the keys into either your code or the > > data structure so that you can access them in the correct order. > > Tom is absolutely right. > > To ease cases like this, maybe we should have a utility function in > base like getItems: > > function getItems(keys, obj) { > return map(function (key) { return obj[key]; }, keys); > > } > > especially intended for stuff like partial(getItems, ['firstname', > 'lastname']). > > ...or maybe just extend itemgetter to accept an array as a parameter, so that > itemgetter(['x','y'])({'x':10, 'y': 20}) == [10, 20] > > Arnar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---