From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-09-23T23:44:26+09:00
Subject: Re: select and select

bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Sep.20.02@telemark.stanford.edu wrote:
...
> - - How about "axiom_of_choice[1]" ? That's really what you're
>   implementing. You could use "zermelo" or "zerm" for
>   short. Nobody but a mathematical logican will have any prior
>   meaning attached to that. Just think of the possiblities:

Actually it's more like the axiom of restriction (the one that got 
Russel out of trouble).

http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/foldoc/80/130.htm

I had considered "restrict", but the intuitive meaning is all over the 
map. Even mathematicians will think of things like restricting a 
function to a domain (which is a bit different from what select/pick does).