[ruby-core:18048] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle)

Michael Neumann wrote:
> For me as a non-native English speaker, #choice is clearer.
> For me, #choose implies that *I* have to choose something, i.e. I would
> expect that method #choose has a parameter, which it doesn't have.
> Whereas #choice implies, that I have no choice, which is in some sense
> true for this method, because I can't choose the element I want.
> 
> So in contrast to Charles, I think, ary.choice produces a choose
> operation internally :)

I think it's pretty standard to have imperative verb methods be 
addressed to the object in question. IO#write is telling the IO object 
to write something. Enumerable#map is telling the Enumerable to produce 
a new array based on the results of eaching to your block. String#split 
tells the array to split based on your criteria. In almost all cases 
where a verb is specified, it's an order (or message, eh?) to the object 
in question. Choose is the same.

- Charlie