From: David Unric <dunric29a@...>
Date: 2011-03-08T21:30:06+09:00
Subject: Duplicate methods removal in Ruby's TODO ?

Hi,

as you know for sure, Ruby defines several method aliases of base
classes to appeal/(make it easier to grasp) programmers comming from
different languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp etc.).

Array:
  'slice' and '[]'
  'collect' and 'map'
  'inspect' and 'to_s'

Enumerable:
  'find_all' and 'select'
  'find' and 'detect'
  'entries' and 'to_a'
  'inject' and 'reduce'
  'include?' and 'member?'

Hash:
  'store' and '[]'
  'each' and 'each_pair'
  'key?' and 'has_key?'
  'value?' and 'has_value?'
  'length' and 'size'
  'merge' and 'update'

...

Just curious about possible removal of method aliases in a future ? I
know it would be very difficult decision to break backward
compatibility, but because these are synonyms/aliases it won't be too
hard to write conversion tool for existing sources.

Is there same intention to clean Ruby's core libraries ?
When'll be the time, Ruby would need no more to attract programmers from
different envirnoments and start with cleaning out ?

Take care


David

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