From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-12-04T00:13:26+09:00
Subject: Re: each_with_what_index?

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, T. Onoma wrote:

>
> Saying that there's "absolutely nothing unintutive about that" is a real
> stretch. Obviously, I have asked for certain indexes [1..-1], but we know
> that #[ ] is really just a form of slice, so what we get is a new array, thus
> reindexed form [0..a.length-2]. It's understandable, but I sure wouldn't call
> it intuitive.

Suppose if each_with_index allowed a range parameter
   a.each_with_index(1...a.size) {|t,i|...}
Would that be worth an RCR?  It looks sort of natural to me, but...

        Hugh