From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T05:19:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25066] Re: REXML behavior change RFC

> 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:

Why not overload to_s so that it returns the first element, then
overload to_a so that it'll return an array?  If you know your data
and know you only want one element, having it short-circuit the search
is a Good Thing(TM) for performance.  ;~) -sc