Add feature to gets DO's children recursively (optional).

[ivan-shaban]

Example: parent.getChildByName("child1.child2.child3", true);

[PrimaryFeather]

I'm not entirely sure about this feature — is this really necessary? After all, this could also be done via a custom utility method.

Any other opinions?

(Thanks anyway for the pull request, in any case! I appreciate the suggestion!)

[tconkling]

I will always advocate for unnecessary features to be left to extensions :)

But also, if this were part of Starling mainline, it doesn't make sense to
parse the child names from a string - the parsing step probably makes it
slower than just passing in a varargs array of children names, and the name
separator is application-specific. If you're using a '.' in your child
names, you'd need to use a / or whatever.

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I'm not entirely sure about this feature — is this really necessary? After
all, this could also be done via a custom utility method.

Any other opinions?

(Thanks anyway for the pull request, in any case! I appreciate the
suggestion!)

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[ivan-shaban]

Hi, sorry for late answer.
Yep, it is not necessary, but it is conveniently. I agreed that separator may be pulled out as argument, but on other hand we will get too many arguments, what not so good from API point.
About performane, if you don't want to search in children, performance will be the same, but if you wanna search, you will write the same code, so, imho, there is no difference.

Anyway i think that, that kind of feature will be very usefull like a part of framework, but it may has different implementation. And if you have any ideas or suggestions how to make something similar, i can easily rework it.