From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-04T03:11:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6781] Re: printing/accessing arrays and hashes

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:6769] Re: printing/accessing arrays and hashes"
>     on 00/12/04, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:
> 
> |> Probably Hash#fetch equivalent for Array is good answer.  What do you
> |> guys think is the best name for it?  Array#get? Array#fetch?
> |
> |at (for the Smalltalkers out there).
> 
> Ruby already has Array#at which only gives an element, not a
> subarray.

Yeah - I was thinking of extending it to accept ranges and/or a length
parameter, but the real difference would be throwing IndexError.
However, that would really be an unacceptable change of semantics in
retrospect, so I guess I'd fall back on Array#fetch.

Dave