From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T11:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: How To Avoid Ugly Declerations

On Dec 11, 6:49 pm, Michael Boutros <m...@michaelboutros.com> wrote:
> Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> > Michael Boutros wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> > def some_method foo
> >   foo.map {|f| f.reverse}
> > end
>
> Thanks for that, I'll be using that more often now :) However, I'm
> having trouble refactoring this code into something like yours...
>
> def get_text(*elements)
>   results = []
>   elements.each {|element| results << self.search(element).first}
>   return results
> end

def get_text( *elements )
  elements.map{ |el| search( element ).first }
end