[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 20261] Support Array and String generic shorthands

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20261





--- Comment #3 from Erik Arvidsson <arv at chromium.org>  2009-12-04 10:02:24 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Re-titling to (hopefully) better match terminology found in aforementioned
> > developer.mozilla.org article. We do support generics, just not the new funny
> > syntax for them.
> 
> Just to be clear - I had to try it in a console to be sure - you can call the
> existing Array methods via Array.prototype.[method].call() and pass Strings.
> 
>    > Array.prototype.slice.call("123")
>    < ["1", "2", "3"]

Yes, but it is a verbose and confusing compared to:

Array.slice('123')

That is exactly why Mozilla added these to JS in Firefox 1.5 (?).

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