On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Graham Ashton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2013, at 16:37, Ash Moran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm tempted to use "deliver" instead of "send", although I don't think I > like the word as much for this use. It's a bit optimistic, for a start. I > just wondered if anyone had an opinion either way on overriding methods > like this. > > Imagine how you'd feel digging into somebody else's code, investigating > some bug or other, to find that they'd overridden `#send`. Now see if you > can get a handle on how you'd feel when realising that they'd used it for a > different purpose than it was originally intended. > > Hope that helps. > > If you're still unsure, my initial thought as I started reading your > email's subject was "jesus no!!!" ;-) > > How about `#tell`? > > My vote goes for #put, if you're adding more stuff to the call. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
