From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T08:01:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things

On 1/4/07, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
>
> You can generally tell from the semantics of the method name.  For
> example, Array#pop has no possible non-destructive meaning.  (A
> non-destructive pop would just be array[-1] with an incomprehensible
> name.)  There are a couple of cases where you do have to learn it...

Array#peek, perhaps, or Array#top. I'm actually strongly in favour of
this (I even submitted an RCR some years ago), since I feel the stack
and queue methods should be capable of being used, as a group, without
having to remember which end is the stack top and which the queue
front.

martin