From: Jeff Pritchard <jp@...>
Date: 2006-05-21T14:05:29+09:00
Subject: Re: rubynuby - confused by method name "inject"

I agree, "map" makes a lot more sense than "collect".  I'm going to just 
forget about collect and consider it "personally deprecated due to poor 
naming".

As for Inject, nobody has come up with a wording that makes any sense to 
me yet.  Does Inject have any aliases/synonyms?

thanks,
jp

P.S.
If I were to choose a synonym for the "inject" method, I might come up 
with "collect".  vis. "iterate over these items and collect the results 
in one answer."  It seems to me that this method does the same thing 
that the big Latin "E" symbol (Epsilon) does in Mathematics.  Is there a 
name for that symbol within the math community?  (I mean - besides 
Epsilon).  Calculus and Physics are "twenty some odd years ago" for me.

P.P.S.
Is it considered bad form to create your own aliases for things like 
this?  For instance, if I were to create an alias for Enumerated#inject 
like "gather", and use that all over my programs, would this be 
considered bad form, or just hunky-dory use of the language?

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