On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a feeling that this may already have been asked and answered, but
>> would this have less of an astonishment factor if the method was makearray -
>> perhaps with options to indicate the mechanism involved?
>
> Well, as Rick pointed out to me  a little while ago, the .String class
> already has a makearray method, but the semantics for makearray(" ")
> are not the same for what he was proposing.  The treatment of multiple
> blanks between words is not the same.

And I am generally opposed to the "add another option to a method"
solution to make one method name perform different functions.

Rick


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