From: Christoph Rippel <crippel@...>
Date: 2001-02-19T19:06:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11089] Recursive flattening (was RE:  MetaRuby 0.5)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Rippel [mailto:crippel@primenet.com]
[..]
> Your implementation of flatten seems to throw a "self -
> recursive flattening exception" when it encounters a 
> self recursive Array (the simplest  example is 
> x = []; x << x ) - maybe the build in semantics should 
> follow your implementation?
I should have been more specific the native Array implementation 
of flatten! does not throw an execption (but flatten does).
Either way meta-ruby or the native Array implementation have
to change ... (maybe both  -i.e. get ride of recursive flatten 
exceptions all together?)

Christoph