From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-25T09:01:04+09:00
Subject: Re: select and select

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Djaja Tjokroaminata" <billtj@y.glue.umd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: select and select


> items, elements, entries?
>
> (Almost all the others below are "verb", but "values_at" is a "noun", just
> like the above candidates.)

I'd vote for "sample" which is noun-verb neutral.

I don't know about others, but Americans
verb their nouns far too much.

Hal