From: walter a kehowski <wkehowski@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T07:11:08+09:00
Subject: Re: cartesian product

Hello,

Here's what I have so far, combining the previous suggestions of Robert 
Klemme and Martin DeMello:

class Array

  def cartprod(a,b)
     a.each {|ae|
     b.each {|be|
      if block_given?
        yield ae,be
      else
        (c ||= []) << ae,be
      end
  end

end #Array

However,

c=cartprod([1,2,3],[4,5,6])

c.each { |ce| print ce,"\n" }

gives the following syntax error:

cartprod.rb:24: syntax error
        (c ||= []) << ae,be
                         ^
cartprod.rb:26: syntax error
cartprod.rb:132: syntax error

and I would like to take the cartesian product of an arbitrary number of 
sets in the most elegant way.