From: jmichel@... (Jean Michel)
Date: 2001-02-20T00:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11107] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name for indexes

James T. Vradelis <jvradelis@mediaone.net> wrote:
>
>I'd like to see:
>
>    (k)  Hash#[],  Array#[]
>
>as in:
>
>    myHash = {'one' => 1, 'two' => 2, 'three' => 3}
>
>    myHash['one','two','three']    ->  [1,2,3]
>
>and
>
>    myArray = [1,2,3,4,5]
>    myArray[4,2,3]                     ->  [5,3,4]
>
>I realize that this latter conflicts with:
>
>    Array#[<beginning index>, <number of elements>]
>
>but that functionality is duplicated by:
>
>    Array#[<beginning index>..<beginning index + number of elements - 1>]

I must say that despite the fact that this would change incompatibly the
language in a big way, I like very much this proposal. Much cleaner than
current ruby semantics, in my opinion. But probably not feasible :(

Best regards,
  Jean MICHEL