From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-06-07T20:54:45+09:00
Subject: Re: CORE - Altering Behaviour of "each do" (default param "item")

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Adam Prescott <adam@aprescott.com> wrote:
> 2011/6/7 Jörg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Ruby@googlemail.com>
>
>> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>> > I've just noticed repetitions within code like that:
>> >
>> > names.each { |name| puts name} # 3 times "name(s)"
>>
>> That's because nobody who knows even the tiniest bit of Ruby would
>> ever write it like that.
>>
>>    names.each(&method(:puts))
>>
>> Would probably be the most idiomatic way.
>>
>
> That's a fairly sweeping statement. I know more than the tiniest bit of Ruby
> and I prefer { |name| puts name } to &method(:puts). More than prefer, in
> fact, I would never use the latter.

In this case you'd probably rather want to use "puts names" and avoid
explicit iteration altogether. :-)

Kind regards

robert

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