unless Array.method_defined? :repeated_permutation require 'backports/tools/arguments' require 'backports/1.8.7/array/index' class Array # Note: Permutations are not yielded in the same order as MRI. # This is not a bug; the spec states that the order is implementation dependent!!! def repeated_permutation(num) return to_enum(:repeated_permutation, num) unless block_given? num = Backports.coerce_to_int(num) if num <= 0 yield [] if num == 0 else copy = dup indices = Array.new(num, 0) indices[-1] = size while dec = indices.index{|x| x != 0} indices.fill size-1, 0, dec indices[dec] -= 1 yield copy.values_at(*indices) end end self end end end