From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T06:24:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies?

On 5 Mar 2009, at 20:40, Todd Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:52 AM, C. Dagnon <c-soc- 
> rubyforum@dagnon.net> wrote:
>> Interesting...  I hadn't learned about the *ect's.  I have used  
>> collect
>> (never map, yuck),
>
> Hmm, let me think about that method name... you are "mapping" a set of
> things into another set (I'm using "set" for a simple group of
> things); "collect" makes much less sense to me.  What exactly are you
> collecting?  Probably just vernacular used in CS circles that I'm not
> aware of, but silly nonetheless.

Collect makes much more sense to me than map as I'm collecting a bunch  
of results and storing them in an array. But the great thing about  
Ruby is that whichever makes sense, you can use it - and if neither  
makes sense you can add your own alias :)


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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