From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-12-05T01:07:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Enumerable#select used to return actual values

Hi,

In message "Re: Enumerable#select used to return actual values"
    on Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:47:45 +0900, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> writes:

|> (1..10).collect{ |a| a * a if a > 5 }.compact
|>
|> The only time this doesn't work is when you want to preserve nils in
|> your original array.
|
|And that's exactly what I suggested for #compact, to take a block but
|faster b/c it's one pass.

I don't deny the existence of use case of such method (although I
cannot think of any realistic one right now), but its name should not
be #compact, since it does far more than compacting the receiver.

							matz.