Array.prototype.contains
Domenic Denicola
domenic at domenicdenicola.com
Fri Mar 7 04:33:10 PST 2014
If that's the argument, then Array.prototype.contains should accept another Array, not an element to check.
> On Mar 7, 2014, at 5:49, "medikoo" <medikoo+mozilla.org at medikoo.com> wrote:
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> Domenic Denicola-2 wrote
>> Personally I think the more useful model to follow than
>> `String.prototype.contains` is `Set.prototype.has`.
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> API wise, arrays have much more in common with strings than with sets.
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> Thinking ES5, they're both array-likes, set isn't. They share `length`
> property, their values can be accessed through indexes arr[0], str[0], they
> share few method names (`indexOf`, `lastIndexOf`), and all non destructive
> array methods can be successfully executed on strings, while they won't work
> with sets.
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> I think it would be more appropriate to stick with `arr.contains` especially
> that we already have `arr.indexOf` and `str.indexOf`, and both `indexOf` and
> `contains` share same signature.
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> `arr.has` could be fine, if we also rename `str.contains` to `str.has`.
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