From: Tom Gilbert <tom@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T20:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: select and select

* Gavin Sinclair (gsinclair@soyabean.com.au) wrote:
> By now, the problem of overloading #at have been made clear: arr.at(a) returns
> an Object, not an Array.  Also, I think the primary purpose of #at is to *not*
> be overloaded: i.e. it does what it does without any overhead.
> 
> 'pick' is being touted.  I do not like it.  I like 'grab', but I doubt others
> will :)  To me, 'pick' sounds exactly like 'select': you 'pick' values based on
> some criteria.  OTOH, 'grab' sounds like a very straightforward operation,
> which 'indices' is.

'sample'?

Tom.
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