Re: [selectors-api] Return an Array instead of a static NodeList from Julien Richard-Foy on 2011-08-30 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2011)

From: Julien Richard-Foy <julien@richard-foy.fr>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:32:04 +0200
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Cc: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-Id: <99138B04-9C4C-49F5-863A-64C9CEE9B27D@richard-foy.fr>

On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> My point was that it was a mistake for querySelectorAll to return a
> NodeList. It should have returned an Array. Sounds like people agree
> with that then?

I think it’s better to return an immutable object (mutable objects are source of programming errors). But this immutable object should have traversing method (forEach, map, filter, etc.).

Julien.

Received on Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:32:40 UTC