From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-20T12:38:11+09:00
Subject: Re: select and select

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: select and select


> A new method (say "quux" for example) should satisfy
> 
>   * obj.quux(a,b,c) returns [obj[a],obj[b],obj[c]] for all indexable
>     collections (i.e. Array, Hash, MatchData and Struct), perhaps
>     except for String, which is mere string of characters rather than
>     indexable collection.  So preferably it should sound natural both
>     for arrays, hashes and others.
> 
>   * obj.quux() either returns an empty array or causes exception, due
>     to the case like obj.quux(*ary) where ary is an empty array.

The latter makes that other proposal inappropriate,
I see now.

Hal