From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-29T01:36:17+09:00
Subject: Re: #collect with block modifying receiver

mark wrote:
> Running the code from The Ruby Way I get
> 
> [mark@laptop mark]$ ruby1.6 -v test.rb
> ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i586-linux-gnu]
> [1, 4, 3, 5, 2]
> [4, 5, 2, 3, 1]
> [mark@laptop mark]$ ruby -v test.rb
> ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i686-linux]
> test.rb:5: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
> test.rb:10: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
> [2, 5, 1]
> [2, 3, 4]
> 
> So it does look like there has been a change between 1.6.7 and 1.8.0

OK, so this *really* makes me wonder what the "theoretically correct"
behavior is.

My first thought is that this:

     receiver.collect { some_operation_altering_receiver }

should behave the same as this:

     receiver.dup.collect { some_operation_altering_receiver }

Matz, are you listening?? Enlighten us, please...

Hal