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Behavior of _.isAssociative and string primitives?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start at the _.isAssociative entry point and read its comments and current behavior for string primitives. This issue needs a maintainer decision between changing the name and returning true for strings; done means the preferred semantics are agreed and the implementation and documentation consistently reflect that choice.

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question

The comments for _.isAssociative describe an associative object as one which has elements which can be accessed by a key/index. Except for the term "object", string primitives meet this definition. However, _.isAssociative("string") will currently return false.

So it seems like this should be changed in one of two ways:

  1. Change the name to isAssociativeObject or...
  2. Return true for strings.

I can create a pull request to resolve this, but I'm not sure which way is preferred.

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