From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T08:15:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, James Britt wrote:

> Quite true, and, whatever name is picked, I hope it has a fairly intuitive 
> (subjective, I know) relation to 'send', or a is plainly self-describing 
> (also subjective, I know).
>
> There are a few methods on Ruby whose names make sense if you have Unix or C 
> experience.   There may be an argument for that sort of thing (though I'm 
> unconvinced so far), but I'd prefer to see Ruby rely more on internal 
> consistency than presumptions of some degree of geekery on the part of the 
> user.

otoh it's __very__ useful to be able to do

   man flock
   man fcntl
   man fork
   man fnmatch

when writing ruby code... my 2cts.

btw:

   harp:~ > curl http://rubydoc.org/
   curl: (7) socket error: 113

   harp:~ > curl http://www.rubydoc.org/
   curl: (7) socket error: 113

   harp:~ > host www.rubydoc.org
   www.rubydoc.org has address 216.143.148.24

thought you'd like to know.

cheers.

-a
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