From: jmichel@... (Jean Michel)
Date: 2001-02-20T00:10:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11102] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo	r indexes

>David Alan Black added:
>
>>    (i) Hash#values_for, Array#elements_at
>
>My vote(s) go for choice i, or if in the end game it's considered too long,
>I'd revert to
>
>     (j) Hash#values,     Array#elements

I like to consider an array conceptually as a special case of hash where
the keys are restricted to be positive integers. So I am very opposed to
choices which  make them differ  more than  necessary (in the  spirit of
matju's mixins, one  could  write  a mixin  to  encapsulate some  common
functionality between  hashes and arrays,  that is, if one  keeps common
names), and so I vote for one of:

>> >   (a) Hash#values, Array#values
>> >   (b) Hash#values_for, Array#values_for
>> >   (g) Hash#selections, Array#selections
>> >   (h) Hash#collect_indexes, Array#collect_indexes
>> >   (f) Hash#subset, Array#subset

I am against (f)  because for me a subset is a special  case of an array
where:

- values are not duplicated (otherwise you have a multi-set)

- the ordering  of the values does  not matter. Because of  that I would
  choose sorted arrays without duplicated values to represent sets.

For conciseness then (a) or (b) would be my preference.

Best regards,
   Jean Michel