1. I am a Integer#times fan So you see my (and my kids) nuby codes
littered w it. I have a small request though.
Can we pass initial and step params?
ie
from int.times {|i| block }
to int.times(starting=0, step=1) {|i| block }
I hope this would not break old code, right?
2. my request may be handled by step. But I do not like step (me only);
maybe because the sound does not ring or maybe because I do not like the
order of params when read.
iow
from num.step(limit, step ) {|i| block },
I prefer fr_num.step(step, upto ) {|i| block }
since I would read the ff 1.step(2,5) {|x| p x} as
"from 1 step 2 up to 5" (I know this would break old code)
I feel Integer#upto has a better read -"int.upto(limit) {|i| block }", but
sadly #upto has no steps either
Whether these make it into Ruby core or not (I'm all for it) I will definitely
add these mods too Ruby Facets (unless of course someone can show that its a
really bad idea, but I doubt that). Do you have them coded up already by
chance?
Thanks,
T.
路路路
On Friday 14 January 2005 02:06 am, "Pe帽a, Botp" wrote:
Hi,
1. I am a Integer#times fan So you see my (and my kids) nuby codes
littered w it. I have a small request though.
Can we pass initial and step params?
ie
from int.times {|i| block }
to int.times(starting=0, step=1) {|i| block }
I hope this would not break old code, right?
2. my request may be handled by step. But I do not like step (me only);
maybe because the sound does not ring or maybe because I do not like the
order of params when read.
iow
from num.step(limit, step ) {|i| block },
I prefer fr_num.step(step, upto ) {|i| block }
since I would read the ff 1.step(2,5) {|x| p x} as
"from 1 step 2 up to 5" (I know this would break old code)
I feel Integer#upto has a better read -"int.upto(limit) {|i| block }", but
sadly #upto has no steps either
"Pe帽a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi,
1. I am a Integer#times fan So you see my (and my kids) nuby codes
littered w it. I have a small request though.
Can we pass initial and step params?
ie
from int.times {|i| block }
to int.times(starting=0, step=1) {|i| block }
I hope this would not break old code, right?
Sure, but semantics of this method will be broken. The block will no
longer execute int times. We have #step for that as know.
2. my request may be handled by step. But I do not like step (me only);
maybe because the sound does not ring or maybe because I do not like the
order of params when read.
Ah, so you *do* care about the correlation between semantics and method
names.
iow
from num.step(limit, step ) {|i| block },
I prefer fr_num.step(step, upto ) {|i| block }
since I would read the ff 1.step(2,5) {|x| p x} as
"from 1 step 2 up to 5" (I know this would break old code)
I feel Integer#upto has a better read -"int.upto(limit) {|i| block }",
but
sadly #upto has no steps either
That could be added. And it would be a resonable and good change IMHO.
Same for #downto btw.
I agree that Integer#step looks a bit odd. The most
natural way to do this is IMO with Range#step (added
in 1.8? ):
irb(main):001:0> (2..9).step(2) do |i| puts i end
2
4
6
8
KB
路路路
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:06:19 +0900, Pe帽a, Botp wrote:
<snip>
2. my request may be handled by step. But I do not like step (me only);
maybe because the sound does not ring or maybe because I do not like the
order of params when read.
So you see my (and my kids) nuby codes
So you see my (and my kids) nuby codes