- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:42:54 +0200
- To: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Cc: Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
* Alex Russell wrote:
>I strongly agree that it should be an Array *type*, but I think just
>returning a plain Array is the wrong resolution to our NodeList
>problem. WebIDL should specify that DOM List types *are* Array types.
>It's insane that we even have a NodeList type which isn't a real array
>at all.
It is quite normal to consider lists and arrays to be different things.
In Perl for instance you can use list operations like `grep` on arrays,
but you cannot use array operations like `push` on lists. For JavaScript
programmers it actually seems common to confuse the two, like with
var node_list = document.getElementsByTagName('example');
for (var ix = 0; ix < node_list.length; ++ix)
node_list[ix].parentNode.removeChild(node_list[ix]);
which would remove all the children if node_list was an array like any
other. Pretending node lists are arrays in nomenclature would likely add
to that.
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