From: dblack@... Date: 2002-09-25T09:10:42+09:00 Subject: Re: select and select Hi -- On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Hal E. Fulton wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William Djaja Tjokroaminata" > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby > To: "ruby-talk ML" > 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. To me "sample" has connotations of randomness or representativeness or something. One could argue that the indexes themselves provide an unambiguous anchor, but it still feels semantically loose to me. David -- David Alan Black | Register for RubyConf 2002! home: dblack@candle.superlink.net | November 1-3 work: blackdav@shu.edu | Seattle, WA, USA Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav | http://www.rubyconf.com