From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-02-16T13:38:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10951] Re: RubyChangeRequest #U002: new proper nameforHash#indexes, Array#indexes

matz@zetabits.com wrote:
>    on 01/02/16, Kevin Smith <sent@qualitycode.com> writes:
>|Extending Hash#values to accept a list of keys 
>|still seems best to me.
>
>Hash#values sounds good to me too.
>How about Array?  Array#values?

Array#values is fine with me. It's a bit odd that 
a.values( ) would return...a copy of the selfsame 
array. Oh, well.

>And how do you think about extending Hash#keys too?
>Or extending Hash#index/Array#index to accept multiple arguments?

If Array#index and Hash#index accept multiple 
arguments, then they should be called 
#indexes...whoops, that's what started all this. 


Um, I guess extending Hash#keys makes sense, 
although I'm not sure how critical that feature 
is. It sure would be nice to have a corresponding 
method for Array, but I can't think of a good 
name.

Kevin