[parenscript-devel] The ps-macro for length

[Travis Cross]

Daniel Gackle wrote:
> Parenscript ships with a helper macro like this:
> 
> (defpsmacro length (a)
>   `(.size ,a))
> 
> But there's no "size" function for arrays or strings... in fact, is 
> there a "size" function in JS?

.size() is a method from the Prototype library.  That probably mixed up 
whoever put that in there.

> For most things, it seems like one would 
> want:
> 
> (defpsmacro length (a)
>   `(@ ,a length))

I agree that is more general.  I've pushed this fix out to the darcs repos.

Cheers,

-- Travis