From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T08:55:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

Hi --

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, 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.

I agree (and the scanf manpage came in very handy during the codefest
that produced scanf.rb :-)  But having things map directly to their C
library equivalents is different from having things map directly to C
constructs from the Ruby source.


David

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David A. Black
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