From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T23:48:26+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing index inside map

Excerpts from William Morgan's mail of  8 Jul 2005 (EDT):
> Excerpts from Michael Campbell's mail of  8 Jul 2005 (EDT):
> > On 7/8/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> > > I'd still like to see #man_with_index added to Enumerable.
> > 
> > "index" implies an ordering, which maps by definition don't have. 
> > Shouldn't that be something along the lines of "#map_with_key"?
> 
> "Map" here means "collect", not "Hash".

Whoops, I may have read too much into your reply. Sorry.

Anyways, as Robert Klemme points out, the index is often useful in
counting, so I'd be favor of putting map_with_index in Enumerable.

-- 
William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>