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Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator?

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On 05/11/2011 02:47 PM, Brian Candler wrote:
> Robert K. wrote in post #997944:
>> Yes, but that was not the point.  I was explicitly talking about the
>> semantics of the argument to #find.
>
> You said: "here documentation is clear.  Why do so many people tell
> different stories if it is so easy to read this up in documentation?"
>
> And my answer is: maybe because the documentation is so poor.

Ah, OK *now* you said it.

> Your example demonstrates this, because ri doesn't mention about
> Enumerable#find returning an Enumerator, which is what the original
> question was.
>
> Admittedly, the errors are usually of omission, rather than being
> actually wrong. This particular one has been fixed in 1.9.2, but not
> backported to 1.8.7p299 (at least)

While we talk about omission: I really couldn't figure that from your 
first posting. :-)

Kind regards

	robert

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Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 13:48 -0500
  Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 11:56 -0700
  Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> - 2011-05-10 14:12 -0500
  Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Lars Schirrmeister <l.schirrmeister@gmx.de> - 2011-05-10 15:33 -0500
    Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-10 23:23 +0200
      Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-05-11 03:43 -0500
        Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-11 05:54 -0500
          Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-05-11 07:47 -0500
            Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-11 19:13 +0200
            Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-11 15:08 -0500
              Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-05-13 03:20 -0500
  Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-10 15:39 -0500
    Re: Enumerable#find returns an enumerator? Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> - 2011-05-10 18:13 -0500

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