[8.x] Add collection sliding
method
#37751
Merged
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This method was extracted from this old PR.
Adds a
sliding
method to the collection, which creates chunks representing a "sliding window" view of the items in the collection:Examples:
Imagine you have a collection of nodes, which you want to link up into a linked list.
The
sliding
method makes that really trivial:You can see similar usage in the original PR.
Or imagine you have a list of transactions, and want to fill in their running total: