17726 2012-07-09 20:23:45 +0000 Enumerables on lists 2012-11-21 18:58:09 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG DOM unspecified PC All RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 enhancement --- 1 jonathantneal annevk bzbarsky erik.arvidsson mike ojan www-dom public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 69747 0 jonathantneal 2012-07-09 20:23:45 +0000 Should NodeList, DOMTokenLists, and other list enumerables behave like Array enumerables? Right now, properties like "length", "item", "add", "remove", "toggle", and "contains" are enumerable, which makes for (e in someList) not as zesty as for (e in someArray). 69749 1 erik.arvidsson 2012-07-09 21:28:52 +0000 It is considered bad practice to use for-in loops for arrays and array like objects. FWIW, "length" is non enumerable in IE and Firefox. It is enumerable in WebKit/JSC, WebKit/V8 and Opera. ES6 solves this using the for-of loop wich uses an iteration hook. http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification_drafts. The right thing to do is probably to spec that the default iterator of these things should be that same as Array.prototype.iterator. which would allow us to do:" for (var element of document.querySelectorAll('p')) { assert(element.tagName === 'P'); } 69762 2 bzbarsky 2012-07-10 06:45:34 +0000 Jonathan, "for (e in someArray)" is pretty broken, since it will enumerate all sorts of things in various cases. Just don't go there. ;) Gecko+Spidermonkey already has support for for-of on lists. And there's discussion about making that automatic in WebIDL. 78582 3 annevk 2012-11-21 18:58:09 +0000 Jonathan, our plan of dealing with this is bug 17648. Hopefully that is okay with you. Please let me know if you have any concerns.