From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T11:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: help me condence my code?

On 7 Sep 2007, at 10:55, Lloyd Linklater wrote:

> Jeremy Woertink wrote:
>> end.delete_at(-1)
>
> OMG!  You can call methods in an end???  I have lived far to long  
> in the
> scalar world!  When would you do such a thing?

Remember do..end is just another way of saying {..}

If I need to filter things out of an array of data I often do things  
like:

data = [1,2,3,4,5,6,6,7,7]
data.find_all{|x| x > 5}.uniq
=> [6, 7]

Thats just the same as:

data.find_all do |x|
   x > 5
end.uniq
=> [6, 7]

I do tend to use the {..} syntax if I'm chaining calls like this  
though because 'calling' methods on end looks weird to me as well.

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University