[ruby-core:27318] Re: select!

On Dec 24, 2009, at 04:01 , Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> It seems wrong to me to invent new names when there's already a =
logical one.
>=20
>  reject   reject!
>  select    ???
>=20
> It's obvious what should go there, whether it's immediately appealing =
or not.
>=20
> The least you can say is that it's perfectly clear (from the name)
> what select! would do if it existed.
>=20
> As a datum: I've frequently typed select! in the past, expecting it to
> be there, so it _is_ useful to me.  (I then add it myself, of course,
> but curse having to do so.)

I still don't think the concept makes sense. Sure, you seem to want to =
use it, but in the same vain do you also reach for delete_if's opposite?

  ary.delete_unless { ... }

I sure don't. It doesn't make sense to me in exactly the same way that =
select! doesn't make sense to me.