From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-02-25T15:25:00+09:00
Subject: Re: "Map" mixin analogously to "Enumerable"

Daniel Berger ha scritto:
> gabriele renzi wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>see the existing RCR, #277 IIRC. Maybe I should add your code (if you
> 
> 
>>allow me to do it), but I'm out of time ATM :/
>>Anyway, I guess a C patch to current ruby would have more chance to
> 
> be
> 
>>accepted :)
>>Oh, and I definitely agree with you a Map mixin would be great :)
> 
> 
> I think you meant RCR #278, Hash#collect_to_hash.  RCR #277 is 'Make
> def return something useful', which you should support, because I wrote
> it. ;)

actually, RCR261. But I definitely support your RCR :)

> I've always wondered if it would have been better to have a List
> superclass from which classes like Array and Hash would be subclasses.

in this case I disagree, since it would be an almost empty class, I think.
I like the idea of having easy to use mixin much more than the one about 
a reasonable class hierarchy :)