From: George Ogata <g_ogata@...>
Date: 2002-08-07T03:01:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Super-iterator?

Joseph Erickson wrote:

> I like it.
> 
> What about a 'multilpe_of?' function.  I hope this makes sense:
> 
> You could have a multiple_of? function so you could say multiple_of?(3)
> and it would give you every third iteration.  You could also add another
> parameter that would subtract back that number like multiple_of?(3,2)
> would give you 1,4,7,10 etc.  That would make even? be multiple_of?(2)
> and odd? be multiple_of?(2,1)
> 
> def multiple_of?(multiple,back)
>      @count_ % multiple == back
> end
> 
> 

If you wanted to generalize it further, you could feed it a block
which evaluates the ith desired index.  e.g., {|i|2*i} for evens,
{|i|2*i+1} for odds, {|i|n*i} for every nth, {|i|f(i)} for something
hairy, ...