From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T05:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: rubynuby - confused by method name "inject"

Christian Neukirchen schrieb:
> 
>   longest = data.inject{|max, this| [this.length, max.length].max }
> 
> ;-)  (That's how they do it in APL too, btw.)

I know why I prefer Ruby ;-)

   data = %w"hello christian and APL"
   p data.inject{|max, this| [this.length, max.length].max }

   # => undefined method `length' for 9:Fixnum (NoMethodError)

Regards,
Pit