From: "marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2012-04-01T05:57:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44028] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6240][Open] Enumerable#drop with negative argument


Issue #6240 has been reported by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune).

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Feature #6240: Enumerable#drop with negative argument
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6240

Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0


Currently, Enumerable#drop works only for non-negative arguments.

It could be extended so that negative arguments means dropping from the end:

    [:hello, :world].drop(-1) # => [:hello]

This could especially be interesting for `Lazy#drop`, which would keep a circular buffer of elements before yielding them.

    (1..6).lazy.drop(-3).each{|x| puts x} # -> prints 1, 2 and 3

Thoughts?


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