From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-04-03T08:13:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Nilling for GC

On Thursday 02 April 2009 16:46:37 Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> 	hs.delete_if { |k, v| (v.map! { |worker| thread_dead?(worker) ?
> (cleaned += 1; nil) :  worker }.compact! || v).empty? }
>
> It always bugs me that compact! returns nil if no changes occur,
> rather than the enum as I seem to use this particular idiom a lot *sigh*

It could also be written like this, if I understand it:

hs.delete_if { |k, v| (v.map! { |worker| thread_dead?(worker) ? (cleaned += 1; 
nil) :  worker }.tap(&:compact!).empty? }

I don't feel strongly about compact! -- after all, it may be useful to know 
whether it found anything. But this is exactly what tap is for, right?

For those on 1.8.6:

class Object
  def tap
    yield self
    self
  end
end