From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-07-12T16:32:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby quickies and useful idioms

Sam Stephenson <sstephenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Wow, I didn't know about Enumerable#inject. Semantically, it's not
> quite the same as foldl: for instance, it doesn't make sense to foldl
> (or foldr) a Hash, since you're not guaranteed any order. Practically
> speaking, however, it's much nicer, since I can use it with Range.

My favourite 'practical' feature is that it tests for a seed value, and
defaults to foldl1 if none is given.

martin