From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-10-30T19:42:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Cleaner syntax for .map (is there already a way, or ruby2 idea?)

Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ary = %w(a b c d e)
> 
> ary.xmap(:upcase, :gsub)
> 
> p ary[0].upcase          # "A"
> p ary.upcase             # ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"]
> p ary.gsub(/[bd]/, 'X')  # ["a", "X", "c", "X", "e"]

I don't like that one, because it provides no visual distinction between
methods that act on the array as a whole and methods that map over it.
Would be a nice place to introduce the -> operator, though :)

martin