[ruby-core:33717] Re: Why is SyncEnumerator in REXML?

On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:25:18 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Asher wrote:
> 
>> Would your preference be to direct them to manually iterate each of the
>> enumerators or create their own convenience class? Seems easy enough,
>> but given that SyncEnumerator is there it made sense to me to leave it
>> and move it into the main extension branch.
> 
> Enumerator should be used for this now, as I explained before:
> 
>>> enums = [1..3, %w[a b c]].map(&:each)
> => [#<Enumerator: 1..3:each>, #<Enumerator: ["a", "b", "c"]:each>]
>>> loop do
> ?>   break if enums.all? { |e| e.peek && false rescue true }
>>>   puts enums.map { |e| e.next rescue nil }.join(", ")
>>> end
> 1, a
> 2, b
> 3, c
> => nil
> 
> or:
> 
>>> enums = [1..3, %w[a b c]]
> => [1..3, ["a", "b", "c"]]
>>> se = enums[0].to_enum(:zip, *enums[1..-1])
> => #<Enumerator: 1..3:zip(["a", "b", "c"])>
>>> loop do
> ?>   puts se.next.join(", ")
>>> end
> 1, a
> 2, b
> 3, c
> => nil
> 
> James Edward Gray II

Both of these are messy and non-obvious. The convenience of the 
SyncIterator is much appreciated, even if it only wraps the logic of one 
of these methods.



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