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Feature #17315

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Hash #transform

Added by dsisnero (Dominic Sisneros) over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:100765]

Description

Add new methods to transform or transform! both the keys and the values of a hash.
#7793

h = {'name' => 'dominic ', 'email' => 'dominic.mail.com '}
h.transform!{|k,v| [k.to_sym, v.strip]}
h # => {name: 'dominic', email: 'dominic.mail.com'}

Updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

You'll be happy to hear that this is exactly what to_h does already.

Updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to Open

I'll reopen this, as you are asking for a mutating version of to_h.

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Updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) over 3 years ago

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Updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) over 3 years ago

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Updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) over 3 years ago

marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) wrote in #note-2:

I'll reopen this, as you are asking for a mutating version of to_h.

It might be strange to have transform! as the destructive counterpart to to_h. Perhaps, the naming should be Hash#to_h!? Wait. That looks even more strange.

Updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) over 3 years ago

I didn't suggest anything, as I don't see a good name, and I don't see the appeal of this method:

  • it can not be more efficient than update + to_h
  • there's not a frequent usecase that I know of
  • seems like avoidable mutation
  • to_h! would be strange (conversion + mutation...?)

Updated by dsisnero (Dominic Sisneros) over 3 years ago

to_h works for me even though it is unintuitive a name for monadic mapping a hash. I wish we had a common name function name in Enumerable for monadic mapping that would return the same Class that we map over.

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