From: Wilbert Berendsen <wbsoft@...4all.nl>
Date: 2001-04-27T17:44:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14308] Re: RCR: Array#insert

Today at 12:40pm, Shugo Maeda said:

> At Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:28:36 +0900,
> Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
> > > Ok, this may be a dumb question, but, is it possible to insert into an
> > > array.
> > >
> > > EG,
> > >  a = [1, 2]
> > >  a.insert(1,3) => [1,3,2]
> >
> >   a = [1, 2]		# => [1, 2]
> >   a[1,0] = 3		# => [1, 3, 2]
>
> Some people asked the same question. Is it a bad idea to provide
> Array#insert?
> # There is another reason - Array#[]= is not efficient for one
> # object insertion.
>
> Shugo

I'm new to ruby, but I think that would be nice, and when you call
Array.insert with only one argument it will insert at the beginning (like
push does at the end)

eg,

a = [1, 2, 3]
a.insert "hi"	# => ["hi", 1, 2, 3]


Regards,
Wilbert


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