From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-07T12:50:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6095] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6092] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby"
    on 00/11/07, Aleksi Niemel� <aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|Don't forget the block form. 
|
|  x = a.detect {|i| i == 7}.ifNil { 99 }
|
|And I guess name should be without '?'. Otherwise great extension. (Is it ok
|to call it extension or am I overloading too much?)

I don't vote for `ifNil' with or without `?'.  With `?' it too looks
like `nil?'.  Without `?', the name convention is Smalltalkish, not
Ruby way.  If we can find better name, I agree to add the method to
the next version.

							matz.