From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T08:33:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> 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.

www.rubydoc.org?

See, perfect example of how important are names;
a hyphen makes all the difference.

Try www.ruby-doc.org

As for the Unixy stuff, yes, I can see that probably those most likely 
do certain things are those with a particular background.  Having 
"obvious" aliases is nice, though.

James
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