From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2013-09-18T10:38:08-07:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57268] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8921][Open] Allow select, reject, etc to accept a regex

On 09/18/2013 09:17 AM, Fuad Saud wrote:
> I mean, couldn't select, reject and friends take one parameter in case
> no block is passed and compare elements using the threequals operator.
> This would enable one to do things like:
>
> [1, 56, 12, 7, 39].select 0..20 #=> [1, 12]
> %w( foo bar baz ).reject /^ba/ #=> [foo]

And then, because of Proc#===, there is this symmetry:

 >> big = proc {|x| x>10}
=> #<Proc:0x007f4770fcd730@(irb):7>
 >> [1,2,34].select &pr
=> [34]
 >> [1,2,34].select pr
=> [34] # with proposed change