From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2007-11-14T09:37:43+09:00
Subject: Proposal: Array#walker

Good morning all together!

I know it is very late for Ruby 1.9.1 proposals, but I have a very simple and 
easy suggestion. While writing a program to generate the Ruby program for some 
guessUTF test (border cases which should not success), I recognized, that it can 
be very helpful for several use cases to have a method Array#walker with the 
following Ruby implementation...

class Array
   def walker
     l = self.length
     l.times do |i|
       yield self[0, i], self[i], self[i+1, l-i-1]
     end
   end
end

A simple usage example is...

[1,2,3,4].walker{|pre,el,post|puts "#{pre.inspect}-#{el} - #{post.inspect}"}

Output:
[]-1 - [2, 3, 4]
[1]-2 - [3, 4]
[1, 2]-3 - [4]
[1, 2, 3]-4 - []

What do you think about this (hopefully) minor change proposal?

Wolfgang N��dasi-Donner