From: matz@...
Date: 2016-08-09T14:36:27+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:76793] [Ruby trunk Feature#12626][Rejected] Add ceiling alias for ceil on Numeric objects

Issue #12626 has been updated by Yukihiro Matsumoto.

Status changed from Open to Rejected

Having both `ceil` (backed by UNIX tradition) and `ceiling` (better for English natives? dunno) only introduces confusion. Is there any other buying point for `ceiling`?

Matz.


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Feature #12626: Add ceiling alias for ceil on Numeric objects
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12626#change-60016

* Author: Jason Willems
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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Proposing adding a `ceiling` alias to the `ceil` instance method for Numeric, Float, Integer.

Although `ceil` is familiar as it's an extremely common method name in other languages, `ceiling` is more readable. Several other methods exist in the standard library with aliased long and short forms. A few examples:

**Numeric**:
[:imaginary, :imag]
[:rectangular, :rect]
[:to_i, :to_int]
[:conjugate, :conj]

**String**:
[:to_str, :to_s]


Usage:

```ruby
> 2.71.ceil
 => 3
> 2.71.ceiling
 => 3
```


```ruby
> Fixnum.instance_methods.grep /ceil/
 => [:ceil, :ceiling] 
```

---Files--------------------------------
add_ceiling_alias.patch (4.47 KB)


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