From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-10-11T00:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-cvs:18323] ruby: * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to

Hi --

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> Thomas Enebo wrote:
>>  One issue with naming is if you choose something too synonymy it becomes 
>> difficult to separate the meaning between them:  to_a, to_ary, to_list. 
>> No suggestion. Just an observation that new Ruby users will end up getting 
>> pretty confused if they cannot distinguish between these method names. 
>> to_splat probably will be something most new users will ignore since they 
>> will have no idea what a splat is.
>
> Of those proposed so far I like to_values best. There's no list/array 
> ambiguity there, and it makes sense...expand this value into values.
>
> I'd throw out a couple others:
>
> to_splattable (perhaps most accurate; I tend to like to_splat also)

Am I the only one who thinks that "splat" is a goofy, babyish word,
and while OK to throw around on mailing lists, really not expressive
of anything technically specific?  (The most accurate would be
"to_splatted", but hopefully the whole thing can be avoided.)  It
would be like having File.slurp instead of File.read.


David

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