From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T14:11:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Cleaner syntax for .map (is there already a way, or ruby2 idea?)

Hi --

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, nobuyoshi nakada wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:07:03 +0900,
> Trans wrote in [ruby-talk:162907]:
>> A shorthand for:
>>
>>   people.every.email_addr
>>
>> But I like your [*]. Hmm... I maybe able to adjust above to use [:*]
>
> I feel your "every" much cleaner than [*].

I agree, visually, but I find both of the semantically opaque compared
to people.each {|person| ... }  I know that people.every could return
some kind of generator or enumerator, which could then be fed
"email_addr" symbolically... but it seems to conceal rather than
reveal what's going on.


David

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