From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-04-25T15:03:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashes and Enumerable#each_with_index

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:10:04 +0900
matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Hashes and Enumerable#each_with_index"
>     on 03/04/25, Ryan Pavlik <rpav@nwlink.com> writes:
<snip>
> |Would it not be more useful to adopt the definiton of
> |Enumerable#each_with_index where the index given is such that e[i] == o
> |for any given Enumerable?
> 
> No.  Index in each_with_index means offset of the values.  It might be
> possible to implement a method that you described for arrays, hashes,
> string, etc.  But it should have different name.

I actually don't really care here... new name (the each_with_key
suggestion sounds OK to me) or old name, as long as it's there, it'd be
a little more useful, IMHO.

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