From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-04-13T09:19:13+09:00
Subject: Re: proposal - zip to do padding

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:23:23 +0900, Dan Doel wrote:
[snip] 
> I suppose you could say Enumerables are how you distinguish between zipping
> and padding arguments.  However, there's no way to pad with Enumerables, then.
> I suppose that might not be a common wish, but there's that to consider.
[snip] 
> You noticed this in your reply elsewhere in the thread, and asked for good
> ways to separate padding and enumerating values. I just don't think there
> are any intuitive ones.  Having variable numbers of arguments that are
> semantically different based only on their inheritance hierarchy doesn't seem
> like a good solution to me.
[snip] 
> I just don't think a pure argument solution will get you there. You're welcome
> to prove me wrong, though.
> 

Yes.. I forgot considering how to distinguish the arguments.
Just when I saw that '(4..6).zip(nil)' was possible, I thought
it might be a good idea if other non-array-like arguments
could be passed to #zip to be used for padding.

Until we find a nicer way to distinguish, I then agree that my
proposal is bad. I don't have any ideas besides using enumerable.

<explicit>this proposal has been withdrawen</explicit>

Thanks for drilling into this ;-)
At least this layed the foundation for the other thread about
#zip taking a block. So your comments hasn't been wasted effort.
I like loud thinking.. it would be a shame to loose good ideas,
just because people keep silent about them. I can only recommend
others to speak out about their ideas. Besides that I am
over-curious to read about what other people are having of ideas.

--
Simon Strandgaard