Rename Element#subNodes to Element#children? and more
Reported by Douwe M. | January 7th, 2010 @ 06:56 PM
Maybe you could rename Element#subNodes to
Element#children, so the name is more a more along the
line of Element#siblings and
Element#parent.
I'm not sure if this is even possible, as there is already a
property called children...
(And maybe the Element#parents method could be
renamed (or alias-ed) Element#ancestors, as I think
this is a more descriptive term...)
(Element#descendants would be nice too, as an alias to
Element#select)
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Douwe M. January 7th, 2010 @ 07:07 PM
- Title changed from “Rename Element#subNodes to Element#children?” to “Rename Element#subNodes to Element#children? and more”
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MadRabbit January 8th, 2010 @ 01:20 PM
- State changed from “new” to “invalid”
- Tag changed from “aliases, element#children, element#subnodes, idea, renaming” to “element#children, element#subnodes, idea”
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No aliases on RightJS, although I've already have couple of them. Aliases are evil, and one of the first rules on RightJS is a simple, clean API. No aliases. Only over my dead body. 8)
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'children' is a conflicting name
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'parents' is more natural, coz .parentNode and it's shorter and less miss-printable than 'ancestors', same for 'descendants' and 'select'.
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MadRabbit January 8th, 2010 @ 08:23 PM
It's not all that bad. I'm just want to keep a clear single interface in the core so didn't get people in troubles like, someone reassigned one alias, but the other was pointing to an old method. Those things tend to get really messy over the time.
If you like the Prototype names, you can just write a plugin that will contain the aliases, similarly how I did for right-rails implementing Ruby style interface.
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