From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2001-12-16T07:14:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28648] Re: Reviews solicited for Ruby article

Bill Kelly wrote:
> 
> From: "Bill Kelly" <billk@cts.com>
> 
> >     counts = Hash.new(0)
> >     text.scan(/[A-Z]/).each {|c| counts[c] += 1}
> 
> By the way, I realized last night the 'each' is not even necessary,
> as - ofcourse ! - one can pass a block straight into scan:
> 
>   text.scan(/[A-Z]/) {|c| counts[c] += 1}
> 

Wow, I had some objections against the upper solution: Seems that I
can't parse more than two chained messages well mentally. That
'each.'less version was immediately clear to me.


> Does Ruby Rock, or what !??  :-)
> 

Yep!

Happy Rubying,

Stephan