From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-04-28T04:10:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14347] Re: RCR: Array#insert

Chris Moline wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:26:37PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > |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.
> > 
> > Sounds good.  Define a behavior of Array#insert, please.
> How about it takes two arguments one for the position in the array to insert and the other the object to insert??


class Array
  def insert(inx, obj)
    self[inx, 0] = obj
    self
  end
end


But naming it insert_before and insert_after would be easier to understand, I think.


Regards

Michael





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