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Ruby inject example, concise and yet readable?
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ruby_inject_readable.rb
# Traditional idiom
total = 1
[2, 3, 5].each do |value|
total = total * value
end
puts total
# Ruby idiom
puts [2, 3, 5].inject { |mult, value| mult * value }
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kotp commented Sep 12, 2011

The fact that the first value in your array is 1 may cause misleading assumptions.

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peter commented Sep 12, 2011

kotp: thanks, didn't think about that. I changed the first value to be 2.

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