From: sam.rawlins@...
Date: 2014-03-10T16:37:24+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:61404] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9602] Logic with	`Enumerable#grep`

Issue #9602 has been updated by Sam Rawlins.


I've updated my patch with Array#select, nobu's `break` suggestion, and documentation and tests:

* GitHub: https://github.com/srawlins/ruby/compare/select-to-accept-args
* patch file: https://github.com/srawlins/ruby/compare/select-to-accept-args.patch

If we want to go forward with this, I just need to do Enumerable#reject, Array#select!, Array#reject, Array#reject!, and I think Struct#select. I don't think this feature should be applied to Hash#select.

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Feature #9602: Logic with `Enumerable#grep`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9602#change-45713

* 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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