From: Albert Vernon Smith <smithav@...>
Date: 2006-04-11T04:18:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Markov Chains (#74)


On 10.4.2006, at 14:05, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Albert Vernon Smith wrote:
>
>> Coming from Perl, I often rely upon auto-vivification, so I needed  
>> to figure out how to work around this.  Perhaps there are improved  
>> ways of going about this, and I'd appreciate any feedback on how  
>> to go about it better.
>
>
> Can you show an example using Perl's auto-vivification that feels  
> funny in Ruby?  Perhaps we would have better ideas after seeing it...

Didn't feel funny, I just wasn't use to having to declare objects  
(hashes and arrays) as I added them as branches on my initial hash.   
I had to use a little more discipline, which probably is a good thing  
coming from Perl-land.

-a