[ruby-core:61347] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9602] Logic with `Enumerable#grep`

Issue #9602 has been updated by Sam Rawlins.

File select-to-accept-args.patch added

+1 to Matz's idea. I think this would work like `Enumerable#count`, taking `*args` _or_ a block, but not both:

    %w{foo bar baz}.select  #=> an Enumerator
    %w{foo bar baz}.select {|e| e['b']}  #=> an Array ["bar", "baz"]
    %w{foo bar baz}.select(/b/)  #=> an Array ["bar", "baz"]
    %w{foo bar baz}.select(/f/, /z/)  #=> an Array ["foo", "baz"]
    %w{foo bar baz}.select(/b/) {|e| e['f']}  # warns "given block not used", returns ["bar", "baz"]

I have a short patch for Enumerable#select [on GitHub](https://github.com/srawlins/ruby/compare/select-to-accept-args), and attached. This idea should be extended to Enumerable#reject, and Array's #select and #reject, and probably Array's #select! and #reject!, and maybe other classes that extend Enumerable, and override #select and #reject (like Struct#select).

If this patch is acceptable, I am happy to extend the patch for the other #select and #reject methods, and write tests.

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Feature #9602: Logic with `Enumerable#grep`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9602#change-45668

* Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
* Category: 
* Target version: 
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`Enumerable#grep` is useful to filter things:

    [nil, {}, [], 1, :foo, "foo"].grep(String)
    # => ["foo"]

1. Often, the condition cannot be expressed as a single object on which `===` is applied, but as a disjunction over `===` applied to multiple objects. I would like `Enumerable#grep` to take arbitrary number of arguments, and when they are more than one, a logical disjunction applies, just as when there are multiple comma-separated objects after `when` in `case` condition:

        [nil, {}, [], 1, :foo, "foo"].grep(String, Symbol, Array)
        # => [[], :foo, "foo"]

2. Also, it often happens that I want the negation of grep. Perhaps, `Enumerable#grepv` (`grepv` comes from `grep -v`) can be implemented as negation of `Enumerable#grep`, i.e., select elements for which `===` returns false on any of the arguments:

        [nil, {}, [], 1, :foo, "foo"].grepv(String, Symbol, Array)
        # => [nil, {}, 1]

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select-to-accept-args.patch (2.62 KB)


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