Re: 2Q: Getting first 4 elements from array and calling class methods directly

Thanks,

that was an awesome explanation! :-)

On 20 =CE=99=CE=B1=CE=BD 2013, at 15:26 , Sandor Sz=C3=BCcs =
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 1/20/13 3:08 PM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis wrote:
>=20
>> 1) Is there any more elegant[1] way to get the first for elements of =
'@entries' object array?
>=20
> irb:0> a =3D (1..10).to_a
> =3D> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
> irb:0> a.take(3)
> =3D> [1, 2, 3]
> irb:0> a
> =3D> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
> irb:0> a.pop(3)
> =3D> [8, 9, 10]
> irb:0> a
> =3D> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
> irb:0> a.shift(3)
> =3D> [1, 2, 3]
> irb:0> a
> =3D> [4, 5, 6, 7]
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>> 2) How should be defined the "feed_list" method in order to be called =
like: feed =3D NewsDisplay::feed_list
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>  1 class NewsDisplay=C2=AC
>  2   def self.feed_list(*args)=C2=AC
>  3     new(*args).feed_list=C2=AC
>  4   end=C2=AC
>  5   def initialize(*args)=C2=AC
>  6   end=C2=AC
>  7   def feed_list=C2=AC
>  8     ['f','e','e','d']=C2=AC
>  9   end=C2=AC
> 10 end=C2=AC
> 11 def test=C2=AC
> 12   feed =3D NewsDisplay::feed_list=C2=AC
> 13 end=C2=AC
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> irb:0> test
> =3D> ["f", "e", "e", "d"]
>=20
>=20
> Hth.
> --=20
> All the best, Sandor Sz=C3=BCcs
>=20


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