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

ruby documentation uses a punctuation convention i've never seen

13 messages 2000/05/27

[ruby-talk:02707] Re: Append alias for Array.append?

From: Hideto ISHIBASHI <hideto-i@...4u.or.jp>
Date: 2000-05-10 14:03:33 UTC
List: ruby-talk #2707
Now I've come to understand.

From: Andrew Hunt <andy@Toolshed.Com>

> 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.

The phrase "pre- prefix" looks like a recursive expression,
something like GNU :-)

Anyway, I've come to think the name `prepend' will be a good idea.

Regards,

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Hideto "rubyholic" ISHIBASHI
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