From: Markus Jais <info@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T05:10:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25064] Re: REXML behavior change RFC

Sean Russell wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is a general request for comments to all of you who are using REXML.
> 
> The current behavior of Element.elements[<xpath>] is to return the first
> matching element.  I propose changing this behavior so that it returns an
> array of matching elements.  This will allow you to write:
> 
>   myel.elements["//blah"].each { |element| ... }
> 
> rather than:
> 
>   myel.elements.each("//blah") {|element|... }
> 

hi
I think this is a good idea. It looks much better und more comfortable
to ruby coders who use the each method of the array class and other
classes with each methods

markus



> My reasons for wanting the change are:
> 
> 1) I was never comfortable with extending "each" to taking an argument in
> the first place.  I'll deprecate each(...), but will leave it for
> backwards compatibility.
> 
> 2) I find that I always start to use the first form, then have to rewrite
> it to the second.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --- SER
> 
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