From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-08T01:10:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6129] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6111] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby"
    on 00/11/07, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

|> How about default, defaults or defaulting (I like the last).
|
|I'd call it "nilGives" or "nil_gives", etc.  I think default leaves too
|much open -- it depends on how your objects are made as to what their
|defualt value is.

I agree with that `default' is too broad.  And both `nilGives' (case
mixture; third person) and 'nil_gives (third person) are not Rubyish
neither.

|This reminds me of my request for a short-circuit operator....  Is
|there a way the two can be unified, or is that silly?

Ah, could you tell me about your short-curcuit operator idea again?
I'm too easy to forget.

							matz.