[ruby-core:75475] [Ruby trunk Feature#11090] Enumerable#each_uniq and #each_uniq_by

Issue #11090 has been updated by Ilya Vorontsov.

Assignee set to Nobuyoshi Nakada

Why introduce one more method if we can just implement `#uniq` (with or without block, sticking to `Array#uniq` semantics) for `Enumerable` and `Enumerator::Lazy`? With `Enumerator::Lazy` we do not need to create an array.

```ruby
module Enumerable
  def uniq
    result = []
    uniq_map = {}
    if block_given?
      each do |value|
        key = yield value
        next if uniq_map.has_key?(key)
        uniq_map[key] = true
        result << value
      end
    else
      each do |value|
        next if uniq_map.has_key?(value)
        uniq_map[value] = true
        result << value
      end
    end
    result
  end
end

class Enumerator::Lazy
  def uniq
    uniq_map = {}
    if block_given?
      Enumerator::Lazy.new(self) do |yielder, value|
        key = yield value
        next if uniq_map.has_key?(key)
        uniq_map[key] = true
        yielder << value
      end
    else
      Enumerator::Lazy.new(self) do |yielder, value|
        next if uniq_map.has_key?(value)
        uniq_map[value] = true
        yielder << value
      end
    end
  end
end

olimpics = {1896 => 'Athens', 1900 => 'Paris', 1904 => 'Chikago', 1906 => 'Athens', 1908 => 'Rome'}
each_city_first_time = olimpics.uniq{|k,v| v }
# [[1896, "Athens"], [1900, "Paris"], [1904, "Chikago"], [1908, "Rome"]]

(1..Float::INFINITY).lazy.uniq{|x| (x**2) % 10 }.first(6)
# => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10]
```

While I propose another solution for the problem, I'm totally agree that we need a way to work with unique elements of collections without creating intermediate array. In heavy data processing it is a very common problem.

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Feature #11090: Enumerable#each_uniq and #each_uniq_by
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11090#change-58596

* Author: Hans Mackowiak
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Nobuyoshi Nakada
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currently if you want to iterate the first uniq elements you either need to call `uniq` and create a big array or you need to count the elements yourself
if you have an `Enumerable` with an indifferent size (maybe something with `cycle` or something you cant `rewind`) calling the `Array#uniq` method might not what you want.

the idea is adding `each_uniq` which does only iterate though the elements which are not already send (it does count for you)
a second `each_uniq_by` does work similar with chunk and does takes a block using a generated `Enumerator`


IceDragon200 did make the following gist/sample in ruby, it might be written in C later to make it faster/better. https://gist.github.com/IceDragon200/5b1c205b4b38665c308e for better view i also added it as attachment.


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