From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-02-28T10:37:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Potential RCR?: Array#join with block

On 2/27/07, Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone think Array#join with a block is a potential RCR?
>   [1,3,2,4].join("-"){|sep,a,b| sep + (a > b ? ">" : "<")}
> which would produce
>   "1-<3->2-<4"

> I thought it would be nice to make the join string a bit more dynamic.
>
> I've got working C code which I'm just testing/optimising further at
> the moment. Is it worthy of submission as an RCR to trunk?

I'd dig through the archives; I'm pretty sure that Matz has weighed in
on this in the past; I don't think it's a good idea, myself.

-austin
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