From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-02-14T23:27:19-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01368] Re: nice sample for functional stuff

gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp (GOTO Kentaro) writes:

> That is not bad though, I was interested in how I can sum up the
> non-numerical elements.  The solution above uses an assumption such
> that the result is 0 if enum.size == 0 but [ruby-talk:01364] doesn't.
> 
> # And, I wanted simply to use `callcc' then ;-)

Both are excellent points! Although you can always use the raw .inject 
method to overcome the first objection:

       p ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'].inject("") {|n,i| n += i}
       p [].inject("all gone")  {|n,i| n += i}

But yours is certainly a more interesting solution.

Thanks!


Dave