Oliver Steele

Scott: I agree completely about [1,2,3,4].map(‘x*x’) versus map(‘x*x’, [1,2,3,4]): I find the first more readable too. I didn't add these to Functional first because extending Array.prototype breaks associative array iteration. (See these postings by "Erik Arvidsson":http://erik.eae.net/archives/2005/06/06/22.13.54/, "James Mc Parlane":http://blog.metawrap.com/blog/WhyIDontUseThePrototypejsJavaScriptLibrary.aspx, and "davber":http://blog.davber.com/2006/08/24/prototype-arrays-improving-upon-ajax/). And second, because several of the DOM frameworks come with their own collection methods, and I didn't want to duplicate their work.

So, although I prefer [1,2,3,4].map(‘x*x’) myself and I'm willing to give up associative array iteration to get it, I didn't want to compile that tradeoff into this library.

Dean, thanks for the kind words --- I've enjoyed reading your code too. :-) I'll incorporate your improvement into the next version of the library.