From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T15:37:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

Joel VanderWerf [mailto:vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU] commented:

> > What if we allow Integer#* to take a block?
> > 
> > a,b,c,d,e = 5 * { Array.new }
> 
> Visually nice, but some would read that as "five times array 
> dot new", 
> which is a lot like the reading of
> 
>    5.times { Array.new }


so maybe, we'd want rather

a,b,c,d,e = { Array.new } * 5

?