From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-11-15T03:40:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby equivalent to Python's map()?

In article <82c04a2.0211140526.115c9413@posting.google.com>,
Roberto Amorim <wolfoxbr@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi...
>
>I'm a Python programmer and I'm trying Ruby now. I love Smalltalk and
>Ruby's "OO-ness" and likeness to Smalltalk gives me warm feelings. I'm
>really excited about Ruby, enough to consider switching to it from
>Python.
>
>However, I was messing around yesterday with Ruby and looked
>everywhere for some functionality close to the map() function on
>python, but couldn't find it anywhere. For those that don't know the
>function, here's a raw example:
>
>a = [1,2,3]
>b = [4,5,6]
>map(None, a, b) --> [[1,4],[2,5],[3,6]]
>

Hmmm... this seems to be what the proposed 'zip' method on Array would do.  
It's not included yet, but apparently has been approved.

I'm not sure that 'zip' is the best name, though...

Phil