From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T17:03:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 
> Besides that Numeric#of is not very intuitive for me (non native
> English speaker).  It seems too vague for me.  Is the name "of" really
> OK for you guys?

I don't like it in the case where the block actually uses the index -
i.e. 3.of { Array.new } seems fine, but 3.of {|i| i+1} doesn't. I can't
think of a better name either, though.

(And it seems worth reiterating my idea of a collecting block syntax -
3.times [|i| i+1] would be nicely orthogonal to the 'times' iterator)

martin