From: Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-03-28T22:56:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Array resizing

David wrote:

> > The question is more ideological than technical. Why not to have
> > Array#resize in standard library? It seems not very rational.
> 
> I think it might be because the size of an array isn't important if
> the array just contains nils, because uninitialized values default to
> nil anyway.  And if you're adding non-nil elements to the array, then
> the fact that the size changes is not really the main point; it's just
> a side-effect of the operation, so referring to it as a "resize"
> operation doesn't fit very well.

Sounds reasonable. 
I can tell when I stumbled upon need for __resizing__ aray: when tried to
use Array#transpose - it can't process
[
 [1,2,3],
 [1],
 [1,2,3,4]
]
 
I think, it isn't sole case, when we can want having array of arbitrary
size.

> David

Victor.