In Ruby, .sum(0, &cols.method(:[])).to_i
is a method chaining expression used to calculate the sum of elements in an array.
Let's break it down step by step:
cols
is an array or collection with multiple elements.cols.method(:[])
is a way to get a reference to the []
method of the cols
object. This method is used to access elements from the array.&
operator is used to convert the method reference into a block..sum(0, &cols.method(:[]))
calls the sum
method on the array cols
, passing two arguments: 0
and the block created from cols.method(:[])
. The 0
argument is the initial value of the sum.sum
method iterates over the elements in the array and sums them up, using the provided block (cols.method(:[])
) to access each element..to_i
converts the final sum value to an integer.Overall, the expression .sum(0, &cols.method(:[])).to_i
calculates the sum of elements in the cols
array, by accessing each element in the array using the []
method, starting with an initial sum value of 0
, and then converts the final sum to an integer.
Note that this expression assumes that cols
is an array of numerical values.
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