Re: toArray() method for array-like DOM list objects from Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com on 2011-12-23 (www-dom@w3.org from October to December 2011)

From: Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:02:35 +0400
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: www-dom@w3.org
Message-Id: <251081324598555@web56.yandex.ru>

The fact it's unsupported by other browsers makes it useless, unfortunately. Though tihs syntax would indeed be much more usable than Array.prototype.slice.call().


23.12.2011, 03:14, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>:
> On 12/22/11 6:07 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>
>>  You don't need that. Array.prototype.slice.call(nodelist) works fine,
>>  because |ToInteger(undefined) === 0|. See ECMA-262 section 15.4.4.10.
>
> Oh, and in SpiderMonkey, you can of course use Array.slice(nodelist).
> Other JS engines don't seem keen on implementing generics on the Array
> object, though.
>
> -Boris

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