From: Krekna Mektek Date: 2006-05-25T23:22:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Equivalent of collections in Java I should have read a bit further, they just mean collections as I already know it, like arrays (ordered lists) and hashes. Nothing new under the sun, to my understanding. So, taken into account I am right, please forget this question :) Krekna 2006/5/25, Krekna Mektek : > Hi list, > > I am reading the "from concepts to code" book from Jacquie Barker, but > this book uses Java as the language to learn OO programming. This > doesn't bother me at all although I'm learning Ruby, but sometimes I > don't know if it is in Ruby and what it's called in Ruby. > I am now reading about the concept of Collections, that is Collection > objects, in Java, but I can't find something about it in my Pickaxe > book. Does someone know the equivalent in Ruby? > > Also another tiny question: > > I read in the Pickaxe book : Integer(gets), how doest this work? I > thought Integer is an object type and not a method which can indeed be > called with an argument, like method(argument) ? > > Thanx again, > Krekna > >