From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-07-20T03:04:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [Patch] FTP.new with block

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, 3:03:49 AM, Yukihiro wrote:

> Hi,

> In message "Re: [Patch] FTP.new with block"
>     on 03/07/20, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:

> |So I think that in this particular case, it works like this:
> |
> |1. people think they know the Ruby API
> |2. people only ever use File.open
> |3. people know the block option thereof and use it
> |4. people know there is a File.new
> |5. people know Ruby has an "alias" feature and that matz uses it
> |   (eg. Array#indices,#indexes; Enumerable#collect,#map)
> |6. people know that File.open and .new play the same role
> |7. people think there is no point in making File.open not like .new.
> |8. so people assume there is a common method, with an alias.
> |
> |that makes sense to anyone?

> Reasonable.

It described my thought pattern pretty well.

> But "open" returns the last value evaluated in the block, for
> convenience, whereas "new", as I believe, should always return a new
> instance.  For me, this is more important than your reason.

Correctly so.  Do you want me to resubmit a patch, or do you have
other plans?

Gavin