From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-12-09T23:39:31+09:00
Subject: Re: reading from file without end-of-lines

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Robert Klemme
> <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> values = File.foreach("cl").first(4).map! &:strip!
>
> Very elegant.  Except for that ghastly &  :)

Absolutely agree!  We could remedy this by allowing a single argument
to Enumerable#map which would be interpreted as method name to send to
objects.  OTOH, does it warrant a change request?

Kind regards

robert

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