It wouldn’t be as relevant, since passing a function or method instead of a closure is much easier in Rust - you can just name it, while Ruby requires you to use the method
method.
So instead of .map(|res| res.unwrap())
you can do .map(Result::unwrap)
and it’ll Just Work™.
Well, that’s to be expected - the implementation of map
expects a function that takes ownership of its inputs, so you get a type mismatch.
If you really want to golf things, you can tack your own map_ref
(and friends) onto the Iterator
trait. It’s not very useful - the output can’t reference the input - but it’s possible!
I imagine you could possibly extend this to a combinator that returns a tuple of (Input, ref_map'd output)
to get around that limitation, although I can’t think of any cases where that would actually be useful.
In the case of your example we’d do .map(
in Ruby (if unwrap was a method we’d actually want to call)
Notably, these are not the cases _1
and _2
etc are for. They are there for the cases that are not structurally “call this method on the single argument to the block” e.g. .map{ _1 + _2 }
or .map { x.foo(_1) }
(_1
is reasonable, because iterating over an enumerable sequence makes it obvious what it is; _1
and _2
combined is often reasonable, because e.g. if we iterate over a key, value enumerable, such as what you get from enumerating a Hash
, it’s obvious what you get; if you find yourself using _3
or above, you’re turning to the dark side and should rethink your entire life)