From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-10-31T07:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: !x.include? y

> > ...
> > list.reject! {|thing| not list_of_acceptable_values.include? thing.attribute}
> >
> > is there a nicer way to do it?
>
> You could modify the Array class to include an accept! method that
> does the opposite of reject!  (I'm sure someone else will chime in if
> this is wrong or bad practise!)
>
> class Array
>   def accept!
>     delete_if {|item| not yield item}
>   end
> end

this is a very tempting solution. a filter method could be cool too.

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Giles Bowkett
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