From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T05:46:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Which messages objects shall respond to? (was: syntactic sugar buzz)

On 7/18/07, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/19/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Another example, what are the chances that Hash#map returning an array
> > is more useful than returning it a hash. I have complained about this
> > "inconsistency" not because it is an inconsistency, but because I feel
> > it is an useless, counter productive inconsistency.
>
> Side effect of #map being defined generically in Enumerable,
that is a good point, it is indeed well documented :), which is
important in theses contexts
> though I
> agree that a "structural" map would be more useful for a lot of data
> structures.
Anyway that is the level of discussion I find more useful :)

Robert


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