[ruby-core:91300] [Ruby trunk Feature#15557] A new class that stores a condition and the previous receiver

[nobu@ruby-lang.org]

Issue #15557 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).


zverok (Victor Shepelev) wrote:
> > `Enumerable#grep`
> 
> Well, it is not "it accepts callable", it is a part of "it accepts any pattern (including Proc)", and passing Proc into `grep` makes sense only in "polymorphic pattern situation" (we have a pattern variable, which can be Proc, or Regexp, or Range)... I mean, nobody probably writes just
> ```ruby
> something.grep(->(x) { x.odd? })
> ```

I meant an example of condition and processing by one method.
```ruby
something.grep(->(x) { x.odd? }) {|x| do_odd_thing(x)}
```

> ...because they write
> ```ruby
> something.select(&:odd?)
> ```

`Enumerable#select` with a block needs chained methods.


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Feature #15557: A new class that stores a condition and the previous receiver
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15557#change-76546

* Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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I often see code like this:

 ```ruby
foo = default_definition
foo = some_method(foo) if some_condition(foo)
foo = another_method(foo) if another_condition(foo)
...
```

It would be nice if we can write this as a method chain. Since we now have the method `then`, I thought it would be a nice fit to introduce a method called `when`, such that putting it right in front of `then` would execute the `then` method as ordinarily only when the condition is satisfied, and returns the previous receiver otherwise so that the code above can be rewritten as:

```ruby
foo =
default_definition
.when{|foo| some_condition(foo)}
.then{|foo| some_method(foo)}
.when{|foo| another_condition(foo)}
.then{|foo| another_method(foo)}
```

This proposal is also a generalization of what I intended to cover by https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13807. That is,

```ruby
a.some_condition ? a : b
```

would rewritten as:

```ruby
a.when(&:some_condition).then{b}
```

The proposal can be implemented by introducing a class called `Condition`, which stores a condition and the previous receiver, and works with `then` in a particular way.

```ruby
class Object
  def when
    Condition.new(self, yield(self))
  end
end

class Condition
  def initialize default, condition
    @default, @condition = default, condition
  end

  def then
    @condition ? yield(@default) : @default
  end
end
```

And additionally, if we introduce a negated method `unless` (or `else`) as follows:

```ruby
class Object
  def unless
    Condition.new(self, !yield(self))
  end
end
```

then we can use that for purposes such as validation of a variable as follows:

```ruby
bar =
gets
.unless{|bar| some_validation(bar)}
.then{raise "The input is bad."}
.unless{|bar| another_validation(bar)}
.then{raise "The input is bad in another way."}
```




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