From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-12-14T09:35:22+09:00
Subject: Re: additional methods for Array

On Sunday, December 14, 2003, 10:38:44 AM, Austin wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:10:55 +0900, David Garamond wrote:
>> I'm wondering what other people's thoughts are about adding these
>> methods. They are found in PHP but not in Ruby at the moment. I'm not
>> submitting an RCR because I don't feel strongly about these myself, but
>> since Ruby's class library are usually "battery-included", there might be
>> interest to include the methods below as well. Each of these can be
>> implemented with a few lines of Ruby.
>> 
>> Array#shuffle -> nil
>> Array#pick(n=1) -> anArray    (method name?)
>> Array#pick(n=1) { |x,y,z...| }   (syntax? method name?) feed block with
>> Array#chunk(n) -> anArray

> I would suggest that you may want to implement these in pure Ruby and add
> them to Gavin Sinclair's Standard Library Extensions library available on
> RubyForge. If they become popular enough, then people can note that in
> feedback and that would weigh heavily on their utility and need.

I've highlighted the relevant messages as a reminder for me to add
(some of) these.

Cheers,
Gavin