From: sawadatsuyoshi@...
Date: 2014-02-23T18:41:06+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:61034] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9557] Enumerator#next and Enumerator#peek with argument

Issue #9557 has been updated by Tsuyoshi Sawada.


> Do you mean peek and next to take index as an optional argument?

No, for `peek`, I mean the difference between the current position. So if the current position's index is `i`, then `peek(d)` looks at the element at index `i + d`.

And for `take`, my understanding is that, supposing the current index is `i`, then `take` reads whatever at position `i` and then increments the index to `i + 1`. My proposal is that when `take(d)` is given, increment the index to `i + d` instead of `i + 1` after it reads at `i`.

> 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.

I see. Then I would like to ask this feature just for subset of enumerators, those that respond to `rewind`.

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Feature #9557: Enumerator#next and Enumerator#peek with argument
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9557#change-45439

* 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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