From: GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T23:07:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25430] Re: Arrays, iterators, and map/collect

In message "[ruby-talk:25403] Re: Arrays, iterators, and map/collect"
    on Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:19:52 +0900,
    Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

> I would do it like this but allow myself to shorten it to
> 
>   strings.map! {|s| s[0]==?a ? s : ("pre." + s)}
>
> since its a one-liner.
> 
> Don't you feel it is natural? Why?

Oh, Yes. It's natural. 
My change_if is a harmful reinvention of map!  :<

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