From: Philip Gatt <gattster@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T06:34:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Time Window (#144)

This raises one of my few frustrations with ruby. I find ruby far  
easier to work with than Java in general, but the main advantage java  
has is great auto-generated documentation. Both Javadoc and  
autocompletion in IDEs feel superior to what ruby has to offer.



On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:15 PM, James Koppel wrote:

> Thanks; I wasn't aware of that method's existence.
>
> Actually, I wasn't aware that Enumerable existed in the cor; its  
> entry in the standard library section on Rubydoc contains no  
> reference to this method. Has it been added there since I first  
> looked, in (if I remember correctly) version 1.8.4?
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>
> To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:16:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Time Window (#144)
>
>
> On 10/24/07, James Koppel <jamesbkoppel@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>  I then wrote the simple Array#some method that returns true if the
>  given
>> predicate returns true for at least one of its elements, which I used
>  to write
>> TimeWindow#incude?.
>
>> class Array
>>   def some
>>     each {|el| return true if yield el}
>>     false
>>   end
>> end
>
> Isn't this the same as Enumerable#any?
>
> Jesus.
>
>
>
>
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