From: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@...>
Date: 2001-04-09T00:11:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13559] Re: array question

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Tjabo Kloppenburg wrote:

> hi,
>
> there's something I don't understand:
> when coding:
>
> arr = Array.new
> arr[1000] = 1
> puts arr.size
>
> -> 1001
>
> I expected to get "1" - because there's only one element in the array.
> Is this a bug, or a feature? :-)

If you put a value into element 1000, it will automagically create an
array of that size (0 .. 1000), 1001 elements.  This might seem a little
odd, but with dynamically allocated arrays, it's correct behavior.

-- Brett
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