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Bob Nystrom 7d7be7361e feat: add Sequence.each method to iterate over elements with a function
Add a new `each` method to the Sequence class in the Wren programming language,
allowing iteration over sequence elements by passing each element to a provided
function. This replaces the previous pattern of using `map` with `Fiber.yield`
in examples, providing a more direct and idiomatic way to perform side effects
per element. The implementation includes a core library method in `core.wren`,
a C source string in `wren_core.c`, documentation in the Sequence markdown file,
and three test cases covering normal iteration, empty sequences, and non-function
argument error handling.
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^title Sequence Class ^category core

An abstract base class for any iterable object. Any class that implements the core iterator protocol can extend this to get a number of helpful methods.

Methods

all(predicate)

Tests whether all the elements in the sequence pass the predicate.

Iterates over the sequence, passing each element to the function predicate. If it returns something false, stops iterating and returns the value. Otherwise, returns true.

:::dart
[1, 2, 3].all {|n| n > 2} // False.
[1, 2, 3].all {|n| n < 4} // True.

any(predicate)

Tests whether any element in the sequence passes the predicate.

Iterates over the sequence, passing each element to the function predicate. If it returns something true, stops iterating and returns that value. Otherwise, returns false.

:::dart
[1, 2, 3].any {|n| n < 1} // False.
[1, 2, 3].any {|n| n > 2} // True.

contains(element)

Returns whether the sequence contains any element equal to the given element.

count

The number of elements in the sequence.

Unless a more efficient override is available, this will iterate over the sequence in order to determine how many elements it contains.

count(predicate)

Returns the number of elements in the sequence that pass the predicate.

Iterates over the sequence, passing each element to the function predicate and counting the number of times the returned value evaluates to true.

:::dart
[1, 2, 3].count {|n| n > 2} // 1.
[1, 2, 3].count {|n| n < 4} // 3.

each(function)

Iterates over the sequence, passing each element to the given function.

:::dart
["one", "two", "three"].each {|word| IO.print(word) }

join(sep)

Returns a string representation of the list. The string representations of the elements in the list is concatenated with intervening occurrences of sep.

It is a runtime error if sep is not a string.

join

Calls join with the empty string as the separator.

list

Creates a list containing all the elements in the sequence.

:::dart
(1..3).list  // [1, 2, 3]

map(transformation)

Creates a new list by applying transformation to each element in the sequence.

Iterates over the sequence, passing each element to the function transformation. Generates a new list from the result of each of those calls.

:::dart
[1, 2, 3].map {|n| n * 2} // [2, 4, 6].

reduce(function)

Reduces the sequence down to a single value. function is a function that takes two arguments, the accumulator and sequence item and returns the new accumulator value. The accumulator is initialized from the first item in the sequence. Then, the function is invoked on each remaining item in the sequence, iteratively updating the accumulator.

It is a runtime error to call this on an empty sequence.

reduce(seed, function)

Similar to above, but uses seed for the initial value of the accumulator. If the sequence is empty, returns seed.

where(predicate)

Produces a new list containing only the elements in the sequence that pass the predicate.

Iterates over the sequence, passing each element to the function predicate. If it returns true, adds the element to the result list.

(1..10).where {|n| n % 2 == 1} // [1, 3, 5, 7, 9].