Array.prototype.contains

[Mark S. Miller]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Domenic Denicola <
domenic at domenicdenicola.com> wrote:

> Perhaps using indexOfIdentical from
> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:simple_maps_and_sets
>

+1. If they want the behavior that's broken on -0.0 and NaN in the
traditional way, I don't think that there's enough difference between saying

    if (arr.contains(foo)) {

vs

    if (arr.indexOf(foo) !== -1) {

to justify adding a new API, whether a new method or a new type. However,
because fixing indexOf is not on the table, and I'd hate to introduce a
parallel similar-but-different indexOfIdentical method as standard, if
we're going to add any contains method as standard, it should not be
similarly broken.


________________________________________
> From: es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org [es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org] on
> behalf of Erik Arvidsson [erik.arvidsson at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 15:15
> To: es-discuss at mozilla.org
> Subject: Array.prototype.contains
>
> DOM4 added a new interface called DOMStringList for the sole reason
> that Array does not have contains. Before this the return type was an
> Array of Strings so we could use indexOf, map, forEach etc. Now that
> it is using a non Array we lost all of that.
>
> Proposal: Add Array.prototype.contains, implemented as:
>
> Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype, 'contains', {
>  value: function(value) {
>    return this.indexOf(value) !== -1;
>  },
>  enumerable: false,
>  configurable: true,
>  writable: true
> }{);
>
>
> This is trivial enough to do in user code but since DOM4 depends on it
> we should just put it in the right place; In ES6.
>
> --
> erik
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-- 
    Cheers,
    --MarkM
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