byKey and byValue: properties or methods?

[Alvaro]

El 21/01/2012 3:05, Michel Fortin escribió:
 >>> I think byKey and byValue are oddly named, property or not.
 >>
 >> Give them better names and convince others. Don't choose "keys"
 >> and "values".
 >
 > Well, if the best ones are already taken, I'd say "allKeys" and
 > "allValues" would be the next best ones. And they are obviously
 > properties.
 >

Agree with "allKeys" and "allValues" as the next best.

IMO, the name of a property should be a a *noun phrase* (a noun possibly 
with modifiers, complements, adjectives...) because it represents a 
thing. And if the property represens a collection of things (an array, a 
list, a range,...) that noun should be *plural* (giving the idea that it 
can be enumerable). "allKeys" follows this guideline (plural noun with a 
complement).

byKey is what, an adverb phrase, an adjective phrase? It can't name a 
range which is a thing.