From: John Sikora <john.sikora@...>
Date: 2010-07-31T03:25:36+09:00
Subject: Re: .any?{} Behavior

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> pattern = /.../
> tests = [ Test.new(...), ..., Test.new(...) ]
> runnable_tests = tests.select {|test| pattern === test.name}
> 
> if runnable_tests.all?{|test|test.pass}
>    puts "Ok!"
> else
>    puts "Failed!"
> end
> __END__
> 
> How do we want this program to work if no tests match the pattern? Is it
> a failure case? IMO, it is not.
> 
> I don't want to code a special case for runnable_tests.empty?
> 
> This seems very English-like to me, but YMMV of course.

Yes, I can see where you would want your result to be according to 
convention and opposite of what I stated.

js

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