I apologize for the message. 'Cat-heard' should be 'cat-herd'.
And I don't mean to be inflammatory -- just getting in my $2.00 (in terms of 2002 monies).
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Yuk! Ruby was presented to me as a 'clean' language.
Aliases are -- in my not-so-humble-opinion -- an abomination.
Aliases mean that when reading someone else's code you have to remember TWO things instead of one.
They serve no purpose except the preservation of the status quo of a cat-heard of programmers.But then, my first language was 1620 machine language.
Not even mnemonics, just a string of numbers to program the beast...> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
> > I don't think that Ruby is a democracy.
>
> And that's a good thing.
>
> > (... I think that there is such thing
> > as too many ways to do it).
>
> But we already have aliases all over the place in the classes
> and libraries. Look at just the Array class:
>
> collect! map!
> size length
> indices indexes
> slice
> to_ary to_a
>
> And one of them is just a change of spelling.
>
> Seems like adding an 'elseif' alias is a simple and
> forward-looking thing to do. Drop 'elsif' some day.
>
> And I don't buy the premise that 'elseif' is harder than 'elsif'.
> They're both pronounced "else if", right?
>
> --
> Mike Hall
>
