From: George Ogata <george.ogata@...>
Date: 2007-02-18T21:17:37+09:00
Subject: Re: exit in a bloc DRY way...

On 2/18/07, SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/18/07, Sharon Phillips <phillipsds@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think this should do the job
> > nb-=1 if contact.select{|c| c==parameter}.any?
> >
> > it will return nb-1 if any contact matches parameter, or nil if none
> > match
> >
> > cheers,
> > Dave
> Isn't #find better than #select?
>
> select wouldn't break the first time a match was found, find would.
> Less time, less memory.
>
> Aur Saraf

I'd do:

  nb-=1 if contact.any?{|c| c.from==parameter}

Regards,
George.