From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@...>
Date: 2012-04-02T22:59:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44069] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6240][Assigned] Enumerable#drop with negative argument


Issue #6240 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Status changed from Open to Assigned
Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)


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Feature #6240: Enumerable#drop with negative argument
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6240#change-25602

Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
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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