[ruby-core:61033] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9557] Enumerator#next and Enumerator#peek with argument

Issue #9557 has been updated by Yukihiro Matsumoto.


Do you mean peek and next to take *index* as an optional argument?
Some enumerators cannot be rewinded thus it's impossible to index.
If you mean skip not index, some enumerators cannot be peek further elements without modifying the position.

Besides that your description does not fully explain the behavior in your example.
Maybe the example need to be fixed.

Matz.


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Feature #9557: Enumerator#next and Enumerator#peek with argument
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9557#change-45438

* Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: 
* Target version: 
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It often happens that I want to move the current index of an enumerator by some arbitrary number `n`. `Enumerator#feed` takes the element as the argument, but that cannot be used if the enumerator has duplicate elements, or when I do not have information of a particular element to choose but just want to increment the index by some number. `Enumerator#next`, on the other hand, has a fixed value `1` to be incremented. It would be convenient if `Enumerator#next` takes an optional argument that represents the difference of the index to be incremented. The argument can be understood to be defaulted to `1` when absent.

Also, I often want to look not necessarily the current position, but some position away. It would be good if `Enumerator#peek` takes an optional argument that represents the positional difference to be peeked. The argument can be understood to be defaulted to `0` when absent.

    enum = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].to_enum
    enum.peek    # => 0
    enum.peek(0) # => 0
    enum.peek(1) # => 1
    enum.peek    # => 0
    enum.next    # => 0
    enum.next(1) # => 1
    enum.next(2) # => 2
    enum.peek    # => 4
    enum.peek(0) # => 4
    enum.peek(1) # => 5
    enum.peek    # => 4
    enum.next    # => 4
    enum.next(1) # => 5
    enum.next(2) # => 6
    peek         # => 8




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