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13 Mar '12, 11pm

The Magic Pens of Ruby /ht @mattly

I’ve recently found myself describing single objects yielded by iterators as “magic pens.” Though it may sound more psychodelic than technical, it’s actually proven to be a good way to explain these objects and give people a feel for why an iterator would only yield one object in the first place. I don’t mean cases where you iterate through a collection that happens to have only one element. I mean methods that, by design, yield one and only one object, every time they’re run. The very word “iteration” evokes collections, and it’s not surprising that I’ve seen puzzlement over iterator constructs like this one: create_table do |t| t.column :first_name, :string t.column :last_name, :string end The create_table method is being supplied with a block, so it’s an iterator. (Ask any method: iterator? and it will tell you true if you’ve given it a block, even if it never yields to...

Full article: http://dablog.rubypal.com/2007/2/18/the-magic-pens-of-ruby

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