From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-10-07T10:11:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Enumerable#inject is surprising me...

nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net] wrote:

> > Inject works on pairs of elements.  Since your list has only one 
> > element, there are no pairs.
> 
> It's correct, the code has no iteration.

Ah, good point. Missed that.


> > You can force one pair in the above example by explicitly 
> supplying an 
> > initial element ...
> > 
> >   ['a'].inject(''){break 'b'}   # => 'b'
> 
> But this doesn't work as Nathaniel expected.  It returns last 
> iteration value, "".

Well, at least I was partly right about it not working :-).

Thanks, Jim & Nobu.


Nathaniel

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