From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-07T00:07:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Super-iterator? (long)

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From: "Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng" <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: Super-iterator? (long)


> How about deleting odd? and even? and having:
> 
>     def mod?(x)

Interesting. I'd probably have both. I think 90%
of the time (for me) I'm just concerned with "every
other" iteration. And that's when I care at all, 
which is less than 10% of the time.
 
> Someone else made this point about next updating count.
> I'd suggest next and next! to overcome this.

Interesting. I can see that.
 
> Should there be an inspect that tells you about @count_ as well?

inspect was just there for my experimenting convenience... 
what it should be remains to be seen.

Thanks,
Hal