[ruby-core:58240] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6727] Add Array#rest (with implementation)

I proposed it as well in #9023 in the CommonRuby list. I don't think the
arguments given there are enough to justify not implementing such an useful
method.
On Nov 9, 2013 6:13 PM, "baweaver (Brandon Weaver)" <
[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> Issue #6727 has been updated by baweaver (Brandon Weaver).
>
>
> As this seems to have been either dead-ended or otherwise, I'd like to
> bring it back up.
>
> Most of the arguments I head as to why not to include a rest or tail
> method is that Ruby is not Lisp, or that there's a hack-around method that
> works the same way. The two objections I have to such reasoning are that
> Matz himself designed Ruby in part after Lisp, and that the point of Ruby
> is to be succinct and clear.
>
> I strongly believe that array.rest or array.tail are clearer than
> array[1..-10] or rest = array.drop. The point is to be clear and concise,
> and this clearly aims to improve upon such.
>
> As per the usefulness of such a construct, tail-recursion and functional
> constructs come heavily to mind.
>
> Within the last year I would have made an argument that lambda was not
> needed in the language because I had not tried to use it, and I have been
> heavily proven wrong in that thinking. A C programmer may think closures
> are useless because they have never used one in production. You use the
> tools you are given, and in some cases become biased towards them.
>
> That being said, we could also add car and cdr just for warm fuzzy
> feelings while we're at it ;)
> ----------------------------------------
> Feature #6727: Add Array#rest (with implementation)
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6727#change-42829
>
> Author: duckinator (Nick Markwell)
> Status: Assigned
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
> Category: core
> Target version: next minor
>
>
> =begin
> I run into many instances where I end up using (({arr[1..-1]})), so I
> decided to add (({arr.rest})) to make that a bit less hideous.
>
> Branch on github: ((<URL:
> https://github.com/duckinator/ruby/compare/feature/array_rest>))
>
> Patch: ((<URL:
> https://github.com/duckinator/ruby/compare/feature/array_rest.patch>))
>
> Diff: ((<URL:
> https://github.com/duckinator/ruby/compare/feature/array_rest.diff>))
> =end
>
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