From: Adam Prescott <mentionuse@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T02:47:10+09:00
Subject: Re: The beauty of Ruby through examples

I don't see this as much of a good use of inject, to be honest.

I'd rather see this:

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9]
numbers.each_cons(2) { |x, y| break x if x.succ != y }

or to get rid of the need to explain how break works and what succ is,
while allowing more readability, perhaps

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10] # has a gap after 4 and 7!
gaps = []
numbers.each_cons(2) do |x, y|
  gaps << x unless y == x + 1
end

gaps #=> [4, 7]

You'll possibly have to explain each_cons, but I think it's easier
than explaining inject to someone who doesn't know Ruby or
programming. You also get to show off post-statement "unless"!


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Giampiero Zanchi <cidza@tin.it> wrote:
> find the first gap in array of fixnum values
>
> p [1,2,3,5,6,8,9,10].inject {|a, e| e == a.next ? e : (break a.next)}
>
> will produce 4
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