From: Moses Hall <moses@...>
Date: 2003-07-12T08:38:24+09:00
Subject: [Q]Ruby LISP-ish stuff

I was wondering if there are plans to add some of the more useful LISP
functions to the array class. What I have in mind is something more or
less like this...

class Array
 def rest
  self[1,-1] end
 def pushnew(x)
  push x unless member? x end
end #class Array

I'm not at all fond of LISP but I use it a lot at work and these functions
in particular have proven extremely useful when I use them in Ruby.
Certainly these would be more efficient if included in the core language.

If no one says "that is an idiotic idea" then perhaps I shall file an RCR.

/\/\oses
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