From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T09:26:36+09:00
Subject: Re: How To Avoid Ugly Declerations

Michael Boutros wrote:
> Hello! More and more I find myself having to do something like this:
>
> def some_method(foo)
>   results = []
>   foo.each {|f| results << f.reverse}
>   return results
> end
>
> As you can see, that is some pretty ugly code, but it's also a common
> scenario. How can I make it a little less ugly?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Boutros
>   

In this specific case...

def some_method(foo)
  foo.map { |f| f.reverse }
end

Use methods which return new objects and take advantage of implicit 
return values.

-Justin