From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-07-21T23:22:55+09:00
Subject: Re: opacity of magic enumerator (was: Re: Using .each with constructors)


dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> Perhaps this all comes down to the need for more nuance and
> selectivity in deciding what each iterator returns, rather than having
> them all automatically return enumerators.

But why does #times return the receiver in the first place? That can;t
possible be anywhere near as useful as the alternative. And indeed 1.9
changes #times to return an enumerator instead. Okay, but why all the
bother? Just return the collection. I'm not against enumerator returns
pre se, but I think it's silly to do fancy things like enumerator when
there's an obvious result in the first place. We rick allowing these
enumerators to become sort of a hackish crutch.

T.