From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-01-10T20:16:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#count returning an enumerator

Hi --

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 11:39 AM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what the purpose is of having count without an argument
>> return an enumerator. It doesn't seem to do anything that #each
>> doesn't do, and it doesn't relate to the semantics of count(n).
>>
>> Are there use cases I'm not seeing?
>
> Something like:
>
>  ary.count.with_index{|x,i|...}

What does that give you that's different from ary.each.with_index?


David

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