From: "Hal E. Fulton" Date: 2002-09-26T07:53:51+09:00 Subject: Re: select and select ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Ohlsen" To: "ruby-talk ML" Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:26 PM Subject: Re: select and select > However, in this particular case, it's being used as a verb. In that case, > the already-existing term "look up" seems to me to make more sense. Interesting. I was thinking of it as a noun. Usually, though, I think of classes as nouns and methods as verbs. Not always. > Don't get me wrong; I have no problem with the language growing. I'd just > prefer to avoid it, where it's unnecessary. Well said. I wish it could be driven by logic rather than by ignorance. That is, I wish English changed more the way Ruby does. Hal