[ruby-core:40544] [ruby-trunk - Feature #4890] Enumerable#lazy

Issue #4890 has been updated by Shugo Maeda.

Assignee set to Yukihiro Matsumoto
Target version changed from 1.9.x to 2.0

Hi,

Yutaka HARA wrote:
>    require 'prime'
>    INFINITY = 1.0 / 0
>    p (1..INFINITY).lazy.map{|n| n**2+1}.select{|m| m.prime?}.take(100)

I prefer Enumerable#lazy to Enumerable#lazy_map or rude_map
because Enumerable#lazy can be used polymorphically as Enumerable.
I hope that Enumerable#lazy will be included in Ruby 2.0.
Is there any reason why it shouldn't be included in Ruby 2.0?

FYI, Scala has a similar method called view.  I don't know whether
the name view is better than lazy because I'm not a native English speaker.

  scala> val v = Vector(1 to 10: _*)
  v: scala.collection.immutable.Vector[Int] = Vector(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
  scala> v.view.map(_ + 1).map(_ * 2)
  res0: scala.collection.SeqView[Int,Seq[_]] = SeqViewMM(...)
  scala> v.view.map(_ + 1).map(_ * 2).force
  res1: Seq[Int] = Vector(4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22)

In Ruby, results are always arrays, so we can use to_a instead of force.
But the name force looks better than to_a for me.

Scala also has a method called withFilter, which is something like lazy_select.

  scala> v.withFilter(_ % 2 == 0).map(_ * 1)
  res12: scala.collection.immutable.Vector[Int] = Vector(2, 4, 6, 8, 10)

I guess it is introduced for the for expression, which is equivalent to list comprehension in Haskell.

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Feature #4890: Enumerable#lazy
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4890

Author: Yutaka HARA
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
Category: core
Target version: 2.0


=begin
= Example
Print first 100 primes which are in form of n^2+1 

   require 'prime'
   INFINITY = 1.0 / 0
   p (1..INFINITY).lazy.map{|n| n**2+1}.select{|m| m.prime?}.take(100)

(Example taken from enumerable_lz; thanks @antimon2)

= Description

Enumerable#lazy returns an instance of Enumerable::Lazy.
This is the only method added to the existing bulit-in classes.

Lazy is a subclass of Enumerator, which includes Enumerable.
So you can call any methods of Enumerable on Lazy, except methods like
map, select, etc. are redefined as 'lazy' versions.

= Sample implementation

((<URL:https://gist.github.com/1028609>))
(also attached to this ticket)

=end



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