From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T07:14:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Searching for a name

On 10/19/05, Brian Schr�der <ruby.brian@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> q.delete_min #=> ["0", 0]
> q.delete_min_return_key #=> "1"
> q.delete_min_return_priority #=> 2
>
> and wonder how I could call the last two methods. I want these,
> because delete_min returns nil if the queue is empty, and I can't
> index nil. So for some code these additional functions are quite
> convenient.


Array#shift is a nice name.

delete_min   ->   shift
delete_min_return_key     ->   shift_key
delete_min_return_priority  ->  shift_prio


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Simon Strandgaard