JavaScript Language feature Idea

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Andrea Giammarchi
> <andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> FWIW `.at` works for me. Anything really, as long as `Symbol.last` won't
>> even be proposed :D
>
> If we name it `.item` that would mean that a whole bunch of DOM
> classes could be replaced with plain JS Arrays.
>
> For example FileList, MessagePortList, DOMRectList, TouchList, etc.
>
> It would also mean API compatibility with a whole lot of more APIs,
> like NodeList, DOMTokenList and CSSValueList. While we couldn't
> replace these with actual Arrays (for varying reasons), we'd end up
> with classes that have more API surface in common.

I love a good bird-killing stone. ^_^  Let's do this!

~TJ