- From: Julien Richard-Foy <julien@richard-foy.fr>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:39:36 +0200
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
On 30 août 2011, at 18:07, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Julien Richard-Foy > <julien@richard-foy.fr> wrote: >> 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.). > > Can you explain how mutable objects are a source of programming > errors. It seems that javascript made the choice a log time ago to use > mutable objects and settable variables, as opposed to for example > haskell. Sure, have a look to these links: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immutable_object http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596155957/FunctionalProgramming.html But that's not so important. If you just add traversing methods to NodeList it would be a huge improvement.
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