From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-04-12T01:21:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02451] Re: Iterator into array

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02450] Re: Iterator into array"
    on 00/04/11, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|This is another dumb idea, but... 
|
|Say we allowed the syntax
|
|    method1(args)  method2(args)
|
|method2 would have to return a proc object.
|
|Then we could do something like
|
|  def into(anArray)
|    proc { |i| anArray << i }
|  end
|
|
|  (1..10).each into(a = [])
|
|Ideally I'd like the whole expression to return the array, but I can't 
|see a tidy way to do that.

It's exactly what block argument does, I think.

  (1..10).each(&into(a = []))
  p a   # [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

							matz.