On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:58:16 +0530, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Dave Massy wrote:
Moving to [email protected]
I don't think we are tied to a particular name for this, I think
getElementsByGroupOfSelectors might be a little excessive :) However
we'd just like the name to more clearly reflect the functionality
rather than a generic sounding matchAll() which isn't really intended
for generic use. It's our belief that it is important for names to
reflect what they do where possible. Having a short name might save us
all a few keystrokes but it is less clear to developers what the call
is doing and can create bigger problems.
I think a short but clear name would be select(). Unfortunately that is
taken by Microsoft's nonstandard XPath API. match() seems like a decent
next-best choice. The idea is to make this a common idiom with a
convenient name so people don't have to go to crazy lengths like making
$() or $$() functions to avoid using it.
I can live with something like matchSelector / matchAllSelectors if that
would solve the problem (I am also happy with the current names). But I am
really not interested in a long discussion about the name - at the end of
the day we are almost guaranteed to pick something not quite right, so
let's do that early in the morning and spend the day doing real work...
cheers
Chaals
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