From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T03:25:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

Yap, exactly.  The first time I saw the methods with names "indexes" and
"indices", I thought there must be something wrong with my english.  In
all the math books, I encountered only "indices".  Therefore, when
"indexes" is one of the method names, I thought probably english has
become even more flexible.

Bill
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Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>> because it accomodates different language backgrounds.  I prefer "map" and
>> "indices"; were it not for aliases, I'd probably have to conform to
> "collect"
>> (what the hell does *that* mean? ;) and "indexes" (a bastard of a word if
> ever
>> I saw one).

> :) :) :)

> OT: When I was reading the proofed copy of _The Ruby Way_ (a long and
> arduous
> task), I found that someone had changed every instance of "vertices" to
> (get ready to wince) "vertexes." I told them that of all the books in math,
> geometry, and computer science I had ever seen in my life, I had *never*
> seen the word "vertexes."

> Hal