From: Dave Cantrell <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T03:23:17+09:00
Subject: Re: tree structures

frank wrote:
> Thanks Dave,  I'll look this over as I continue to modify my code.
> 

I really wouldn't use that for anything other than what it was: my first 
real attempt to write a linked list that was exactly that, not 
implemented as an array. Arrays are native (and I presume implemented in 
C?) and will have *far* better performance than anything we create 
ourselves.

As others said, I think you'd be better off approaching the problem 
domain from scratch using The Ruby Way(tm) rather than trying to port C 
code into Ruby. Ugly C code makes ugly Ruby code, or ugly any other 
code, regardless. :(

Good luck!
-dave