From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T00:41:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies?

On Mar 4, 3:32 pm, "C. Dagnon" <c-soc-rubyfo...@dagnon.net> wrote:
> >     key = map.keys.detect { |k|  k.to_s.downcase ==
> > matcher.to_s.downcase }
>
> Hmmm, what is 'detect'?

'detect' is a synonym for 'find' (or maybe it's the other way around).

I prefer to use the *ect methods when working with Enumerables instead
of the simpler/shorter synonyms. This is in part because they get some
consistency and connection, but also because Rails overrides some of
them on Enumerable-like association proxies. And some of them don't
even have non-ect synonyms.

  [].detect  -> [].find
  [].select  -> [].find_all
  [].reject  ->
  [].collect -> [].map
  [].inject  ->

--
-yossef