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Feature #8840

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Yielder#state

Added by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) over 10 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Target version:
[ruby-core:56894]

Description

Defining an Enumerator that require a state is currently troublesome. For example, it is not really possible to define an equivalent of Lazy#drop in Ruby without making an assumption on the implementation.

To address this, I propose that we

(a) guarantee that a new Yielder object will be given for each enumeration
(b) add a 'state' attribute to Yielder.

This way, one could implement Lazy#drop in a way similar to:

class Enumerator::Lazy < Enumerator
def drop(n)
n = n.to_i
Lazy.new(self) do |yielder, *values|
yielder.state ||= n
if yielder.state > 0
yielder.state -= 1
else
yielder.yield(*values)
end
end
end
end

Note that (a) is currently true for Ruby MRI, JRuby and Rubinius, but it is not explicit in the documentation.


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state.pdf (87.8 KB) state.pdf marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune), 08/31/2013 07:57 AM

Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Ruby master - Bug #7696: Lazy enumerators with state can't be rewoundClosedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)01/15/2013Actions
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