From: Tom Gilbert <tom@...>
Date: 2002-09-25T01:56:25+09:00
Subject: Re: select and select

* Yukihiro Matsumoto (matz@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: select and select"
>     on 02/09/25, "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
> 
> |> How about #values_at ?
> |
> |I can dig that.  Quite nice, actually.  Could hardly be any clearer, and is not
> |a handful to type or read.
> 
> Probably Dave will set up vote on rubygarden.org.
> 
>   * select
>   * pick
>   * grab
>   * find_at
>   * values_at
> 
> What else?

* sample

  From WordNet:
       2: items selected from a population and used to test hypotheses
          about the population [syn: {sample distribution}]
       3: all or part of a natural object that is collected and
          preserved as an example of its class

Tom.
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