From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-11-04T02:42:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:26503] Re: HashWithIndifferentAccess to core

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:26499] Re: HashWithIndifferentAccess to core"
    on Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:27:32 +0900, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|>   * the class name is too long, and not clear, at least for me.
|
|You mean HashWithIndifferentAccess?  That longer name is for an equivalent code
|from ActiveSupport.  The author of this request names his class "StrHash".

Yes, but I don't prefer StrHash either, which is shorter but still
does not describe the role of the class.

|>   * it might be useful for some cases, but not so common to make it
|>     built-in, I think.
|
|But that "some" case is actually HUGE.  Almost all Rails application uses this
|(sort of) as if it were a built-in ruby feature.  It would be great when this
|was a true built-in.

With making huge hole for confusion?  Putting 1.8 compatibility aside,
I believe all 1.9 code should use symbols for such cases, so the needs
for HashWithIndifferentAccess (or whatever name) will become less.

							matz.