From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T00:08:15+09:00
Subject: Re: map or collect with multidimension arrays

I know they are interchangeable
But I can't make it work.

For instance -
x = [["john", "doe"],["mary", "jane"],["jim","richards"],['sue","scott"]]
y = x.map {|i| i + "name" }
p y

It's returning nil on me ????

Stuart

On 8/12/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> > Hi --
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Dark Ambient wrote:
> >
> >> What would be the proper call to a multi array either collect or map
> >> ?
> >
> > There's no single proper thing to do; it depends entirely on the task
> > at hand.
>
> DA, note also that map and collect are synonyms.  It doesn't matter which of
> the two you use. :-)
>
>     robert
>
>
>