From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T06:53:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

Phil Duby <newshoundat@atphriendly.atnet> wrote:
> 
> I was looking for a clean (Ruby) way of creating an array of ascending 
> integer values, with the final value zero.  IE [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 0 ]
> i = 0; a = Array.new( 4 ) { i += 1 }.push 0
> does what I want.

(1..4).to_a.push(0)

also Array.new passes in the index to the block, so you can do

Array.new(4) {|i| i+1}

martin