From: Trans Date: 2006-08-29T13:45:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Should Array.new(n, obj) be deprecated? E. Mark Ping wrote: > In article <1156818017.639800.295490@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, > Trans wrote: > >What wrong with > > > > [obj] * n > > It has the same behavior as in the first post. Try it with a hash. That's my point. It does the same thing is a much more commonluy used idiom --becasue it is symbolically recogizable. The constructor on the other hand has no inherint sense. T.