From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-10-02T08:41:45+09:00
Subject: Re: suggested changes for ruby libraries

Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/1/05, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I do not believe that this necessary.
> > >
> > >     # Equivalent to your ...LAST suggestion
> > >   "hello".index("lo") + ("lo".size - 1)
> > I actually think LAST (though I'd say :last) is a cleaner sulution there
> > - it avoids repeating the "lo", and it's definitely a useful use case.
> 
> Well, "lo" wouldn't be what gets repeated. It'd be more like:
> 
>   str.index(find) + (find.size - 1)

Same thing. It's still asking the user to do something that is more
properly the computer's problem (explicitly specifying an algorithm for
a common task), and it's repeating a piece of information in the "call". 

martin