Set constructor arguments

[Brendan Eich]

+1 on ... (spread) exhausting an iterator to expand the iterated values 
into positional parameters or initialisers.

/be

Mark S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Andrea Giammarchi 
> <andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com <mailto:andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     nope, Set does not even accept arguments as it is now ... does it ?
>
>
> Not now. But this thread suggests changing it to do so. I think I 
> agree but don't yet have a strong opinion about whether Set should 
> have a single iteratable parameter or a rest parameter of the 
> individual elements.
>
> Relevant question: What should spread (... in a call expression) do 
> when its operand is an iterator or iteratable? Currently spread simple 
> treats its operand as array-like, in which case I think perhaps Set 
> should stick with a single parameter. If we can generalize spread to 
> enumerate the values obtained from an iterator, then I think perhaps 
> Set should go with the spread parameter.
>
> Whatever we decide for Set should also guide what we do for Map and 
> WeakMap of course.
>
>
>
>
>     On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Dean Landolt
>     <dean at deanlandolt.com <mailto:dean at deanlandolt.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>         On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Andrea Giammarchi
>         <andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com
>         <mailto:andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             if you accept a single argument, of course, but what if
>             you Set(..[1, 2, 1]) then ?
>
>
>         `Set(1, 2, 1)` then? Are you suggesting this should throw? So
>         you'd need to dedupe your arguments before you construct a set
>         with them? Isn't that a primary use case of sets?
>
>
>             magic add through Set constructor does not sound good to me
>
>
>             On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Peter Michaux
>             <petermichaux at gmail.com <mailto:petermichaux at gmail.com>>
>             wrote:
>
>                 On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Andrea Giammarchi
>                 <andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>                 > thinking about the add behavior, where no duplicated
>                 values will be added,
>                 > this argument may cause some logic headache anyway
>                 >
>                 > Set([1, 2, 1]) what should happen ?
>
>                 I think that should be a set with one element. The
>                 element is an array
>                 of length three.
>
>                 Peter
>
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