From: Chris Moline Date: 2001-06-19T05:44:47+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:16604] Creating arrays Hi, I was wondering why do we have to do this array = [] before we can assign to an array. I was thinking I would like it to behave like it does in perl where it automatically creates an array when you do something like this array[0][1] = 3 Chris Moline