[ruby-core:106442] [Ruby master Feature#18181] Introduce Enumerable#min_with_value, max_with_value, and minmax_with_value

Issue #18181 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto).


Just for confirmation, is it OK that `min_with_value` returns only a single value?
I don't like the name `_with_value`. It explains that the method returns an additional value with the minimum/maximum value, but no additional information on the value.

Matz.



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Feature #18181: Introduce Enumerable#min_with_value, max_with_value, and minmax_with_value
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18181#change-95087

* Author: kyanagi (Kouhei Yanagita)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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PR is https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/4874

I propose `Enumerable#min_with_value`, `max_with_value` and `minmax_with_value`.
These methods work like this:

``` ruby
  %w(abcde fg hijk).min_with_value { |e| e.size } # => ['fg', 2]
  %w(abcde fg hijk).max_with_value { |e| e.size } # => ['abcde', 5]
  %w(abcde fg hijk).minmax_with_value { |e| e.size } # => [['fg', 2], ['abcde', 5]]
```

Corresponding to `#min(n)`, an integer argument can be passed to `#min_with_value` or `#max_with_value`.

``` ruby
  %w(abcde fg hijk).min_with_value(2) { |e| e.size } # => [['fg', 2], ['hijk', 4]]
  %w(abcde fg hijk).max_with_value(2) { |e| e.size } # => [['abcde', 5], ['hijk', 4]]
```

## Motivation

When I use `Enumerable#min_by`, I sometimes want to get not only the minimum element
but also the value from the given block.
(e.g.: There are many points. Find the nearest point and get distance to it.)

``` ruby
  elem = enum.min_by { |e| foo(e) }
  value = foo(elem)
```

This works, but I'd like to avoid writing foo() twice. (Consider a more complex case.)

This can be written without repeated foo() like belows, but it is slightly complicated and needs extra arrays.

``` ruby
  value, elem = enum.map { |e| [foo(e), e] }.min_by(&:first)
```

If the size of enum is enormous, it is hard to use intermediate arrays.

`Enumerable#min_with_value` solves this problem.

I think `min_with_value` is the best name I could think of, but any suggestions for better names would be appreciated.

## Benchmark

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18181#note-2

## Example

Solving a traveling salesman problem in nearest neighbor algorithm.

``` ruby
require 'set'
Point = Struct.new(:x, :y)
points = Set.new([Point.new(1, 1), Point.new(2, 4), Point.new(3, 3), Point.new(2, 2), Point.new(0, 1)])

total = 0
current = points.first
points.delete(current)
path = [current]

until points.empty?
  current, distance = points.min_with_value do |point|
    Math.hypot(current.x - point.x, current.y - point.y)
  end
  total += distance
  points.delete(current)
  path << current
end

p path
p total
```




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