From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-17T13:24:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5624] Re: Regexp#matches

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5611] Re: Regexp#matches"
    on 00/10/17, Aleksi Niemel� <aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|All the other are defined like the above, directly pointing two names to one
|C-function. So my question is, is there a reason to use one way or another,
|or should direct definitions instead of rb_define_alias be favored. 

Not much.  Direct C function is little bit faster though (probably
unnoticable difference).

|     *And there are no aliases for 3rd person form*. 

Well, there are a few 3rd person method names, exists?, istty, is_a?,
isdst;  All have plain form aliases, except isdst.  I just forgot to
add an alias to isdst.  I'll add Time#dst? soon.

							matz.