From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@...>
Date: 2012-08-13T21:22:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:47147] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6852] [].transpose should behave specially

> A 3x0 matrix corresponds to [[], [], []], but there is no correspondence for a 0x3 matrix. So strictly speaking, `[[], [], []].transpose` has no valid answer, but returning `[]` is more useful than raising I believe.

It would be interesting to see code that found returning [] to be
useful. As in, code that expected to operate on the transposed result.

To me, [[], [], []].transpose smells like division by zero, and
because I can't imagine enjoying the result, I'm fine with an
exception.

Ciao,
Sheldon.