From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T03:00:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies?

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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  ->

Interesting. Now that I think about which versions I use, I don't have
a rule :-). I use:

find
select
reject
map
inject

So, no consistency or anything. Just the ones that I like better, I suppose :-D.

Jesus.