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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] array_column() function
From: mjpelmear@gmail.com (Matt Pelmear)

On 01/14/2013 10:12 PM, Herman Radtke wrote:
>> If it is called "array_pluck" it should remove the data in question from the
>> original array. (I'm not saying that is a desirable feature here, I'm just
>> saying that makes more sense based on the meaning of the name you seem to
>> prefer.)
> Why do you think pluck is destructive? In most examples I have come
> across it merely 'plucks' a certain key from a dictionary and does so
> in a way that does not modify the original dictionary.
>
> Sources:
> Underscore.js - http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/#pluck
> Rails - http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Calculations/pluck
> Python example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816545/pluck-in-python
>

Sources:
1. google:    "define: pluck"
     "Take hold of (something) and quickly *remove* it from it's place"
2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pluck
     "to pull or *pick* off or *out*"
3. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pluck
     "To *remove* or detach ..."

Emphasis added. The connotation of the word is that something is 
*removed* from it's original place.

Just because other languages/frameworks have made a poor naming choices 
doesn't mean PHP should too. In this case, there is already an 
alternatively proposed method name which is more obvious way to name the 
method that fits within the established PHP conventions.


I'm picky about naming things. :-)

-Matt