From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2006-10-11T03:02:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-cvs:18323] ruby: * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:38:21AM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> How about a fun technical term, like all the other terms in Ruby? :-)

Because visual terms can be more powerful, in terms of associating with a
teaching mnemonic.  I can see the argument if it were "to_rofl" or
"each_with_w00t", but "splat" is such an awesome combination of the visual
appearance of an asterisk and the action of squeezing list parts into little
variable-shaped boxes.  It is a term originally unique to Rubyists and it won't
just go away by vote -- it's a colloquialism and it adds color to our speech.
We're not all businesses here, right?

I'll yield to matz in terms of "to_splat", I just don't want to hinder his
recent bursts of creativity.

_why