From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-06-03T03:18:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [ann] bidirectional iterator 0.8

Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> wrote:
 #
> # example 2.  multiway each
> #
> require 'iterator'
> data_a = %w(a b c d)
> data_b = (0..3)
> ia = Iterator::Continuation.new(data_a, :each)
> ib = Iterator::Continuation.new(data_b, :each)
> result = []
> while ia.has_next? and ib.has_next?
>   result << ia.current
>   result << ib.current
>   ia.next
>   ib.next
> end
> ia.close
> ib.close
> p result   # ["a", 0, "b", 1, "c", 2, "d", 3]

This suggests "higher order" iterators composed of parallel and serial
combinations of other iterators.

ic = Iterator::Parallel(ia, ib) # or even ic = ia | ib
while ic.has_next?
  a, b = ic.current
  result << "#{a} -> #{b}"
end
ic.close

martin