[#3006] mismatched quotation — "stevan apter" <apter@...>

ruby documentation uses a punctuation convention i've never seen

13 messages 2000/05/27

[ruby-talk:02702] Re: Append alias for Array.append?

From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-05-10 13:11:50 UTC
List: ruby-talk #2702
    >From: Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com>
    >Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 12:23:18 +0200 
    >
    >> >I don't know whether Array should has the `append' method.
    >> >BTW, what is the opposite of `append?'
    >> >Array.push <---> Array.append
    >> >Array.pop  <---> Array.???
    >
    >Now that prepend seems good, I can't find the word `prepend'
    >in my English dictionary, however. Do you guys really use this
    >word in your daily life or in technical talks?

I think push and pop are fine, or if you wanted the opposite 
of "<<", try ">>".  But prepend really is a word, at least in technical
discussions.  Webster's dictionary hasn't yet caught on to many
of the neologic barbarisms that us computer types come up with :-)

I'm only a native speaker of English, not an expert, but I think
almost anything is legal with a pre- prefix.

/\ndy

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