From: "boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky)" Date: 2013-10-17T21:34:01+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:57912] [CommonRuby - Feature #9023] Array#tail Issue #9023 has been updated by boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky). +1 for #tail. I do not know why it seemed not a good name to Matz, but in case he reads this, I experienced that the notion that "everything but head is tail" is easy to learn and remember. PS: My second and third favorite is #cdr and #rest. In the meantime, like-minded can enjoy #cdr along with #car, #cadr, #cddr and progeny in my (begging forgiveness for self-promotion) Pyper gem ( https://github.com/boris-s/pyper ). ---------------------------------------- Feature #9023: Array#tail https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9023#change-42501 Author: fuadksd (Fuad Saud) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: Target version: I propose the addition of a `tail` method to the Array class that returns all elements but the first. It is a pretty common pattern in functional programming, but not limited to - I use it extensively in all kinds of apps/gems. The implementation would be pretty trivial, I won't risk a patch to MRI because I'm uninitiated on ruby core matters, but powerpack gem (http://github.com/bbatsov/powerpack) implements it in ruby in terms of slices. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/