From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-10-02T02:56:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Mode method for Array

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Robert Klemme wrote:

> On 01.10.2008 18:17, David A. Black wrote:
>
>> It doesn't; I'm just using it to separate the collection and a
>> potential "mapping".
>>
>>    [1,2,3,4,5].map("") {...}   # Result:  "Hi."
>> 
>> I don't think that << correctly represents the concept of mapping, so
>> I would not want map to be generalized to any <<-capable target
>> object. It's more a <<'ing, or something, than a mapping. It happens
>> that the current behavior of map can be implemented using << and an
>> empty array, but I don't think that means that << per se is at the
>> heart of mapping.
>
> Ah, now I get your point.  Thanks for elaborating.  So you'd rather call such 
> a method #append or similar.

I'm pretty happy just iterating and using <<. I'm not sure there's a
need to wrap it in another method.


David

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