From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-07-14T04:57:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby quickies and useful idioms

Hi --

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Martin DeMello wrote:
> > A flatten_once would really be a useful method to have around.
> > 
> > martin
> 
> Yes. Maybe even flatten(n).

There's flattenx on RAA (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/flattenx).
It gives you four methods:

     Array#flatten_once   #  [[1,2,[3]]] => [1,2,[3]]
     Array#flatten_by(n)  #  does the above n times
     Array#flatten_once!  #  in-place version
     Array#flatten_by!(n) #  in-place version


David

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