[ruby-dev:46554] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5553][Rejected] A method for Hash that works differently depending on whether a key exists

Issue #5553 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

No feedback, looks hopeless to me.  Closing.

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Feature #5553: A method for Hash that works differently depending on whether a key exists
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5553#change-33201

Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
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Target version: 


A method Hash#if_key(key, [default], &pr) which works like the following will be often used, and is useful.

    a = {morning: "おはよう", daytime: "こんにちは", evening: "こんばんは", nothing: nil}
    a.if_key(:morning){|str| "#{str}世界!"} #=> "おはよう世界!"
    a.if_key(:nothing){|str| "#{str}世界!"} #=> "世界!"
    a.if_key(:midnight){|str| "#{str}世界!"} #=> nil
    a.if_key(:nothing, "どうも"){|str| "#{str}世界!"} #=> "どうも"

That is, when `key' exists, then the corresponding value will be passed to `pr'. Otherwise, the given `default' or the implicit default will be returned.




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