From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-08-04T18:37:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Deprecation and Unicode

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> At Sun, 4 Aug 2002 01:21:02 +0900,
> Danny van Bruggen wrote:
> > 10 and 9: are methods and such going to be deprecated in Ruby? I think
> > there are some good candidates, like every method that ends with a "2" or
> > "3"...
> 
> What methods do you mean? open3?

Just want to chime in and let you know that I agree with Danny. Now,
there doesn't seem to be too many which end in digits, until you require
'date'...

DateTime#exist1?
DateTime#new2
DateTime#new0
DateTime#new1
DateTime#exist3?
DateTime#exist2?
DateTime#new3
Date#exist1?
Date#new2
Date#new0
Date#new1
Date#exist3?
Date#exist2?
Date#new3


Cor blimey, its worse than I remember from last time I used it :-D Some
verbose, descriptive aliases wouldn't go amiss, since this is part of
the standard library. 

(Not intentionally slagging the date module, its the only one I used
where the numbers started confusing me.)

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