From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-06T19:50:32+09:00
Subject: Re: CORE - Altering Behaviour of "each do" (default param "item")

On 6 Éïýí, 13:20, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: CORE - Altering Behaviour of "each do" (default param "item")"
>     on Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:00:29 +0900, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> writes:
>
> |Hypothetically, if a patch would have no performance losses and would
> |not influence behaviour in any way, would it be considered?
>
> It's not that easy decision before evaluating the impact to the whole
> language design.  But if those two assumptions were cleared, I will
> start considering it positively

ok, very nice.

> (but I still prefer "it").

The positive thing with "it" is:

* it's shorter
* it's used in another language (I rate construct adoption as a good
thing)
* can be read as shortform for "item".

.

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