From: merch-redmine@... Date: 2017-11-14T16:08:50+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:83763] [Ruby trunk Feature#14105] Introduce xor as alias for Set#^ Issue #14105 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans). `^` is used as the exclusive-or operator in many other programming languages including C, C++, C#, D, Java, Perl, PHP and Python. If a user wants to use `xor` instead of `^`, they can always alias it manually: ~~~ruby class Set alias xor ^ end ~~~ In general I prefer that users add their own aliases. I don't think Ruby should add aliases unless the current method names are so bad as to be misleading, and I don't believe that to be the case here. Note that the following core classes also use `^` for exclusive-or: * Integer * FalseClass * TrueClass * NilClass One counterpoint is that Set already aliases `&` to `intersection` and `|` to `union`, so adding `xor` would be consistent in that sense. ---------------------------------------- Feature #14105: Introduce xor as alias for Set#^ https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14105#change-67802 * Author: ana06 (Ana Maria Martinez Gomez) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Not sure if I should also add feautures for the `Set` class here or if I should do it somewhere else. I would like to add a more readable method for the exclusive or, currently as `^` in set. It is in both mathematics, hardware and many other programming languages known as `xor`, so I think this will help to use it. ---Files-------------------------------- firefox.desktop (528 Bytes) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: