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Feature #5044

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#zip with block return mapped results

Added by trans (Thomas Sawyer) over 12 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Target version:
-
[ruby-core:38154]

Description

Is there any reason that #zip doesn't return results like map?

[1,2,3].zip([1,2,3]){ |a,b| a + b } #=> [2,4,6]

Currently, it just returns nil, which seems rather contrary to the return result of the non-block form.


Related issues 2 (1 open1 closed)

Related to Ruby master - Feature #4539: Array#zip_withAssignedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)Actions
Related to Ruby master - Feature #16261: Enumerable#each_splat and Enumerator#splatRejectedActions

Updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze) over 12 years ago

Hi,

Please have a look at http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4539 (or [ruby-core:35613]).

The reason is explained by Yusuke in [ruby-core:35682]:

2011/4/5 Benoit Daloze :

An unconditional nil is anyway not useful here, the only concern I see
might be the cost of creating this Array.

It is actually a problem.
I have used Array#zip with block for iteration many times.

big_ary1.zip(big_ary2) do |x, y|
p [x, y]
end

The change requires some people (including me) to rewrite
such a code as follows:

big_ary1.size.times do |i|
x, y = big_ary1[i], big_ary2[i]
...
end

So I like zip_with, if it is really needed.

That issue kind of got lost, it is probably a good idea to continue it.

For your example, we could have [1,2,3].zip_with([1,2,3], :+)

Updated by akr (Akira Tanaka) about 12 years ago

Currently it can be implemented as follows.

% ruby -e 'p [1,2,3].zip([1,2,3]).map {|a,b| a + b }'
[2, 4, 6]
% ruby -e 'p [1,2,3].lazy.zip([1,2,3]).map {|a,b| a + b }.to_a'
[2, 4, 6]

Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) about 12 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Assigned
  • Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) over 11 years ago

  • Target version set to 2.6
Actions #5

Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 6 years ago

  • Target version deleted (2.6)

Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) about 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

We cannot change the behavior. The change would increase the memory consumption (and decrease the performance).

Matz.

Actions #7

Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) over 4 years ago

  • Related to Feature #16261: Enumerable#each_splat and Enumerator#splat added
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