From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T05:07:12+09:00
Subject: Re: A newbie would like some code criticism, please...

2006/7/6, Elliot Temple <curi@curi.us>:
>
> i'm not happy with the suggested solutions. i think the inject
> solution is OK when it works, and next best is each_with_index. but i
> think worrying about indexes is too low level when we don't actually
> want to deal with numbers. it's worse when you care about the last
> iteration and have to worry about off-by-one errors (you need to do
> something special on list.length-1) what might be nicer is either
> variable capture in loops (i guess that is rejected because it's too
> confusing?) or each_with_first_last (with a shorter name).

You might want to search the archives of ruby-talk - IIRC we had
several lenghty discussions about these kind of problems.  I
personally didn't yet need these. And if, the boolean toggle is ok for
me.

Cheers

robert

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