From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-07-18T12:28:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Better name for #zip_with

On Jul 17, 10:13 pm, John Feminella <jo...@bitsbuilder.com> wrote:
> Doesn't zip basically do that already?
>
> ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 > l = [1,2,3]; r = [6,5,4]
>  => [6, 5, 4]
> ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 > arr = []; l.zip(r) { |first, second| arr << 3 *
> first + second }; arr
>  => [9, 11, 13]
>
> (Are you just trying to save the last step?)

Actually, I didn't know zip took a block. Good to know. So yea, that
makes it much closer than I realized. But why doesn't it map the
results? That's unfortunate. I think I will submit a feature request
for Ruby.

Thanks.