From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-03-30T22:34:19+09:00
Subject: Re: inject's pathological case...

On 3/30/08, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  By the way, using inject() is inefficient--not to mention confusing.
>  You might as well pretend it doesn't exist.

Or much better, understand that it's a way to reduce/fold the elements
of an enumerable into a single value.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_%28higher-order_function%29

Enumerable#inject is very useful, as long as you don't treat it as
Maslow's hammer and use it in inappropriate ways, such as giving it a
block like in the original posting to this thread.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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