From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-11-09T04:56:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6177] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Aleksi Niemel� wrote:

> matju writes:
> > 	a .when_nil { b }
> 
> This sounds like good name. How about generalizing a little and having
> 
>   module Kernel
>     def when(value, default=nil)
>       if self == value
>         if iterator?
>           yield
>         else
>           default
>         end
>       else
>         self
>       end
>     end
>   end
> 

So I'd have

print myarray.sort!.when(nil,myarray).uniq!.when(nil,myarray).inspect

you mean?

	Hugh