From: Paul Prescod <paul@...>
Date: 2002-11-15T07:51:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby equivalent to Python's map()?

Roberto Amorim wrote:
> Hi...
> 
>...
> 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]]

The better way to do this in Python is with "zip". map() is better for 
applying a function to one or more lists. If zip had been invented when 
map was invented, map probably wouldn't even have this map(None) feature.

  Paul Prescod