From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2000-06-08T01:21:05-04:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03179] Re: Min and max?

> > >>>>> "M" == Mathieu Bouchard <matju@CAM.ORG> writes:
> > M> Totally unrelated, I propose a new operation called "accum" in
> > M> Enumeration: 
> >  Something like apply (in scheme) ?
> 'inject' is documented in the FAQ.
> In the book, we implement a more general version in Enumerable, with
> the option to specify starting value, so it can be used to concatenate 
> strings and well as find sums.

In what book? btw the FAQ has already "the" general version with a
starting value and in Enumerable. It's a pity it's not in the standard
lib, it seems more useful than, say, splicing out null elements from an
array. 


Mathieu Bouchard