From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-09-21T20:33:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#index block and rdetect

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:09 am, David A. Black wrote:
> I prefer "key" for hashes and "index" for arrays (I know Robert
> disagrees), so I would tend to avoid "index" names for hash methods.
> But I have no deep theoretical argument here.  I'm just following what
> I think is common usage (index/element for array, key/value for hash).

For sake of interchangeability (after all that's the upside of ducktyping) 
have an alias for both:

  Array
    def each_with_index
    alias each_with_key each_with_index

  Hash
    def each_with_key
    alias each_with_index each_with_key

Good?


T.