[ruby-talk:02729] Re: Append alias for Array.append?

Hi,

From: "Conrad Schneiker" <[e-mail]>

> # I'd add Array.shrink. But some native English speakers might think
> # this as not a better name...
> 
> The problem is that shrink is ambiguous about which direction/side the
> shrinking would occur from.

Yes, I agree.

> # 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?
> 
> Yes, at least for computer-related discussions.
> 
> Try www.dictionary.com. Being an online dictionary with access to lots of
> cheap storage and being a competitive marketing front-end of sorts, it is
> probably more comprehensive and more up to date than your dictionary,
> although it doesn't compare to the giant OED (Oxford English Dictionary). It
> has the common definition for "prepend". It says that "prepend" is jargon,
> but I think that is a little misleading because that is sort of like saying
> that "program" is jargon. Both terms are fairly widely known and used these
> days, although "program" is much more frequently used.

I'll check www.dictionary.com. Thank you for telling me that.

> It doesn't have "rubyholic" yet. This is probably because not enough people
> are using comp.lang.ruby, so this term hasn't been swept up by the latest
> generation of electronic concordance generators and analyzers.

I wish "rubyholic" would be picked up by Corpus :-)

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