From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T23:06:00+09:00
Subject: Re: pop/push, shift/unshift

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Hi --

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Jes=FAs Gabriel y Gal=E1n wrote:

> On 10/23/07, richard.j.dale@gmail.com <richard.j.dale@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe 'enque' and 'deque' could be used as names for methods to put
>> items on the front of a Queue and remove items from the back somewhere
>> in Ruby - then you wouldn't need push/pop and shift/unshift depending
>> on which end of the queue you were operating on.
>
> I like this:
>
> class Array
>   alias :enqueue :push
>   alias :dequeue :shift
> end
>
> Then you get Queue semantics and the start of the queue is the first
> element in the Array :-). (you could do enqueue --> unshift, dequeue
> --> pop if you rather have the first element of the queue the last in
> the array).

No thanks. #shift/#unshift are fine, and certainly I don't want to
have to figure out what people have aliased enqueue and dequeue to
before I can understand their code.


David

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