From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-09-16T04:31:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev suumary 26862-26956

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> I think that it would not be a bad idea to add Enumerable#count as an
> alias for Enumerable#nitems, as while #nitems is somewhat sensible, it
> doesn't leap out as a "count items that are like this" method to me. I
> would tend to favour #select with #size or #inject if said method does
> not exist.

Why not? I read it as "number of items" so being able to use a block 
seems natural.

#count might still be a good idea, though -- I think people are going to 
try #count first.