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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 19:49:38 -0700
From: "Charles Adkins" <formofmind@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Misc comments
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On 8/6/06, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/5/06, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> T
> > What would be the exact behavior of feed.crop?  Remove the last n
> > entries in the list or remove the oldest (by atom:updated) n entries in
> > the list?
>
> What I had in mind was e.g. crop(5) would remove all but the 5 most
> recent entries (by atom:updated). I've no idea of what would be the
> best idiom(s) for this kind of thing, but restricting the size somehow
> was something I needed right away.
>
> Wouldn't that be better called cropTo(x) or clipTo(x)?

Upon first grok, for me, the (5) would seem to refer to what to crop rather
than what to leave alone..

Charles Adkins

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