From: Charles Oliver Nutter <Charles.O.Nutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-11T00:30:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-cvs:18323] ruby: * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>> 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.

I like the word; it's very descriptive of slamming an array against a 
hard surface...the contents "splat" out into individual elements. If you 
want something more technically descriptive, "expand" is your word, or 
perhaps "break_into_consitutent_pieces". I like splat.

And I figured to_splattable is more accurate because it hasn't been 
splatted yet; the implementation of to_splattable returns an array 
that's ready to be splatted. You could certainly call x = 
y.to_splattable; z = [*y]; because y is a splattable, not a splatted.

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