From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-11-19T08:48:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 18711-18810

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 18711-18810"
    on 02/11/19, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

|>     * We should not use external iterator (Iterator pattern).
|
|What are the reasons for avoiding external iterators?  Using zip for
|parallel iteration has a nice clean syntax, but I think I'd avoid it for
|large data structures -- unless it could be defined to return some sort
|of proxy object that responds to each() instead of an Array.

Internal iterator is far simpler, and as powerful as external
iterator, except for parallel iteration.  I won't buy complexity for
rarely used parallel iteration.

|>     a.sync_each(b,c) {|a,b,c| ... }
|>         # Problem: "sync_each" is not a good name.
|
|How about Enumerable#iterate_with?

Hmm.  Better than "sync_each".

|> [ruby-dev:18739] change chomp!
|> 
|>   Shin-ichiro HARA suggested that String#chomp should cut off
|>   CR and LR at once.  Knu pointed out that ruby 1.7 already acts
|>   like such.
|
|Does it do this on all platforms or only on Windows?

On all platforms.

							matz.