From: SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Date: 2014-01-31T14:48:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:60370] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8987] map/collect extension which handles arguments

(2013/10/06 0:26), sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) wrote:
>     [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&4.method(:+))
>     # => [5, 6, 7, 8]

Interesting.

If we use �� (alias of lambda���, it is more short.

    module Kernel
      alias �� lambda
    end
    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&4.method(:+)) #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]
    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&��{|x| 4+x})  #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]

If we define �� as the following definition, more short code.

    module Kernel
      def ��(a, sym)
        lambda{|x| a.send(sym, x)}
      end
    end

    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&��(4, :+))  #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]

A bit shorter version.

    module Kernel
      def ��(expr)
        eval("lambda{|x| #{expr} x}")
      end
    end

    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&��("4+"))  #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]


If we have default parameter `_' (maybe matz doesn't like), we can make
more short code.

    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&��{4+_})      #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]

Summary:
    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&4.method(:+)) #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]
    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&��{|x| 4+x})  #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]
    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&��(4, :+))    #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]
    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&��("4+"))     #=> [5, 6, 7, 8]
    p [1, 2, 3, 4].map(&��{4+_})      #=> [5, 6, 7, 8] (doesn't run)

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