- From: Nicolas Mendoza <mendoza@pvv.ntnu.no>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:04:49 +0100
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:48:45 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > Based on this, I think that shorter names like "match" or "matchAll" are > justified, if not necessarily those exact names. How about (document+"").match(/Document/) vs. (document).match() -- sure, a bit exaggerated but it sure seems confusing to me ;/ Oh and just because one has failed earlier doesn't mean that one has to do it again. I'd go for surprising the user the least. If one really wanted to always use short and possible conflicting keywords, one should at least do it properly, and deprecate the old long and oh so hard to use getElementBy#? ones. If it really is a huge problem that libraries make aliases that is. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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