From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-03-06T04:30:02+09:00
Subject: Re: collect with index?

On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Mark Bush wrote:

> Todd Benson wrote:
>> I agree, #map makes more sense, but the use of #collect doesn't  
>> bother
>> me that much.  I think I would get irritated, however, if I saw both
>> in the same code.
>
> In functional languages, I'm happily a mapper, but in OO languages I'm
> an avid collector.  I guess it's the Smalltalker in me.
>
> I wouldn't baulk at mixing and matching according to conditions.  I'd
> probably #map a variable representing a Proc object and #collect a
> block:
>
> f = lambda {|x| ...}
> a.map &f
>
> a.collect {|x| ...}
>
> If that makes me weird then I'm happy to be weird.

I like weird people.  ;)

Weird is just another way to say "free thinker," anyway.

James Edward Gray II