From: Brian Candler <lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-07T02:50:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#concat Enumerator

Well, the documentation of concat is explicit that it requires an array 
argument:

  ary.concat(other_ary)   -> ary
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Appends the elements of other_ary to self.

  [ "a", "b" ].concat( ["c", "d"] ) #=> [ "a", "b", "c", "d" ]

I suppose it could call to_a or Array() implicitly on its argument, but 
that might have unforeseen behaviour.

Otherwise it could call other_ary.each and add the yielded elements one 
by one, which would work with anything that duck-types Enumerable. 
However I imagine this would be a lot slower if you're actually just 
concatenating an Array.

I would quite like all Enumerables to be lazy - so for example arr.map{} 
returns an Enumerator, and you can run map and select on infinite 
enumerations. If this were the case, concat would be lazy too. But 
that's not going to happen.

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