[ruby-core:62821] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9867] Introduce each/else block into ruby

Issue #9867 has been updated by Tsuyoshi Sawada.


=C5=81ukasz Strzebi=C5=84czyk wrote:

> ... the 'else' block is invoked when collection is empty.

Your proposal is about `any?`, but your explanation mentions emptiness, or =
`empty?`, and so the usecase and the proposal do not match. Are you confusi=
ng `any?` with negation of `empty?`? In some cases, the former can be a sho=
rthand for the latter, but they are different.

If your real intention was to condition the first part by `empty?` rather t=
han `any?`, then you don't need to condition for the first part as empty ar=
ray will have nothing to iterate over. It can be simply written as:

    array.each do |elem|
      some_work
    end
    unless array.any?
      do_something_else
    end


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Feature #9867: Introduce each/else block into ruby
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9867#change-46945

* Author: =C5=81ukasz Strzebi=C5=84czyk
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Low
* Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
* Category: syntax
* Target version:=20
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Hi

Code like this happens quite often:

    if array.any?
      array.each do |elem|
        some_work
      end
    else
      do_something_else
    end

I was thinking if it was possible, to introduce syntax like this:

    array.each do |elem|
      some_work
    else
      do_something_else
    end

where code in else would fire if array is empty. This would simplify a lot =
of code nicely and would be completely backwards compatible. Is that a good=
 idea?



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