From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-06-22T23:31:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Behaviour of Enumerables reject vs. select mixed into Hash

On 6/22/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW all this does not answer OP's, Tom's and my *original* concern.
> We were talking about Hash#reject and Hash#select not
> Enumerable#reject and Enumerable#select, but nobody seems to notice,
> sigh :(
> This topic would be less difficult to discuss I think.

My hash isn't your hash.  What's the most generic behavior to expect?

See, you've already dismissed me right there, because you've decided
if my Hash doesn't work the way _you_ expect it to, it's my fault.

>
> Offense, are you kidding? The only thing which bothers me from a set
> theory point of view is the symmetry in your statement above.
>
> Honestly Todd if you wanted to make a point I missed it, completely...

That wouldn't be the first time I've been accused of saying a whole
lot of nothin' :)

I stopped talking about Ruby, and started talking instead about
programming in general.  I introduced too many things at once.  My
bad.

Todd