From: Christoph <chr_mail@...>
Date: 2003-10-24T22:26:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Struggling with variable arguments to block

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
...
> When I define it like this
> 
>   def sum
>     result = 0
>     self.each { |elt| result += yield(elt) }
>     result
>   end
> 
> {1=>2}.sum { |k,v| v }   works but gives a warning.
> [[1,2]].sum { |a,b| b }  is fine.


Actually it is the other way around - the second ``sum''
is issuing the warning and first runs perfectly okay!

Here is a possible solution by distinguishing  between
``normal'' enumerables and  enumerables yielding 
possibly several values at the same time  (e.g. hashes).


---
module Enumerable
  def sum
    result = 0
    each { |elt| result += yield(elt) }
    result
  end
  
  module Many
    def sum
      result = 0
      each { |*elt| result += yield(*elt) }
      result
    end
  end
end

class Hash
 include  Enumerable::Many
end


 # sum of second elements
 
h = Hash[1,2,3,4]
p  h.sum { |a,b| b }        # 6 
p  h.to_a.sum {|a,b| b } # 6
---

This script should run danty without warnings.

/Christoph