Hi --

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Brian Adkins wrote:

> "David A. Black" <dblack / rubypal.com> writes:
>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Fredrik wrote:
>>
>>> What I am still thinking about though, is this:
>>> Why on earth is Array#first not calling Array#[0] ???
>>
>> The real question is: why should it? They're completely separate
>> methods.
>
> I can't think of a good reason to ever have: Array#first != Array#[](0)

That's not the question, though; the question is why #first doesn't
actually call #[].


David

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