From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-27T07:17:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23554] Re: RCR #50 Simplifying the use of map by adding optional parameter

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:23424] RCR #50 Simplifying the use of map by adding optional parameter"
    on 01/10/26, Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|  [1,2].map(:succ)  #=> [2,3]

|its more than a "shortcut". IMHO its more in line with how map is used
|in functional programming languages. 

To be "in line with functional language", shouldn't it be

  [1,2].map(lambda{|e|e.succ})

? Oops, it's no "shortcut".  ;-)

Anyway, I'm not sure how useful it is, when we already have a way
generic enough (blocks).

							matz.