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Feature #15863

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Add `Hash#slice!` and `ENV.slice!`

Added by bogdanvlviv (Bogdan Denkovych) almost 5 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:92722]

Description

Add Hash#slice!

In https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8499 we added Hash#slice.

Hash#slice! removes and returns the key/value pairs matching the given keys:

h = {a: 100, b: 200, c: 300}
h.slice!(:a) # => {:a=>100}
h # => {:b=>200, :c=>300}
h.slice!(:b, :c, :d) # => {:b=>200, :c=>300}
h # => {}

Note that, this method reflects the behavior of Active Support's
Hash#extract! method that was added in 2009, see
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/8dcf91ca113579646e95b0fd7a864dfb6512a53b

h = {a: 100, b: 200, c: 300}
h.extract!(:a) # => {:a=>100}
h # => {:b=>200, :c=>300}
h.extract!(:b, :c, :d) # => {:b=>200, :c=>300}
h # => {}

(There is a proposal to add Hash#extract to Ruby - https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15831, but it has another method signature)

Active Support also has Hash#slice!, see https://api.rubyonrails.org/v5.2/classes/Hash.html#method-i-slice-21.
It is quite different what this patch proposes, see how it works:

h = {a: 100, b: 200, c: 300}
h.slice!(:a) # => {:b=>200, :c=>300} # AS Hash#slice!
h # => {:a=>100}
h.slice!(:b, :c, :d) # => {:a=>100} # AS Hash#slice!
h # => {}

I think Hash#slice! in Ruby should work in the same way as Hash#extract! from Active Support,
there is one argument:

  • https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8499#note-31
    It should behave in the way Hash#slice does, except one thing
    Hash#slice! modifies the object. (See, for instance, how Array#slice and
    Array#slice! work, they return the same value)

But I would like to discuss it more to choose the right behavior for the
proposed method. (Maybe there are good arguments why we should add Hash#slice!
with behavior as it is in Active Support)

Add ENV.slice!

The method removes and returns the key/value pairs matching the given keys.

ENV.slice!("PORT", "RAILS_ENV") # => {"PORT"=>"3000", "RAILS_ENV"=>"development"}

Pull Request: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2195
Patch: https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/ruby/ruby/pull/2195.patch


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Ruby master - Feature #8499: Importing Hash#slice, Hash#slice!, Hash#except, and Hash#except! from ActiveSupportClosedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)Actions
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