From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-09-21T00:22:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#index block and rdetect

Hi,

In message "Re: Array#index block and rdetect"
    on Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:21:08 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

|Or, if index always means a (to_a-based) numerical index, then
|#each_index should be in Enumerable, and not left to the individual
|classes.  Then it would be clearer that index == 0-origin, possibly
|meaningless (for unordered collections), numerical index.  Classes
|that specialized from this could either re-use the name index (for
|example, a 1-origin collection), or introduce a set of methods with a
|new name/concept (like key).  

This (numerical index) is what I thought when I designed
each_with_index.  So I vote for introducing a new name.

							matz.