From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T04:50:01+09:00
Subject: Re: New Ruby Culture T-Shirts!

On 8/3/06, William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I see
>   (1..10).collect {|x| x*x}
> This woud be better:
>   (1..10).map {|x| x*x}
>
> The name "collect" tends to make one assume that it does
> what inject does.  On the other hand, "map" describes what
> it does; it produces a one-to-one mapping.
>
> Furthermore, "collect" in Common Lisp does something
> different.  OCaml and most if not all Lisp dialects use "map"
> as it is used in Ruby.
>
> And "collect" is longer.  To me, it seems senseless to use it.

On the other hand collect is an old friend to old Smalltalker's like me.

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