From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-08-29T13:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Should Array.new(n, obj) be deprecated?


Trans wrote:
> E. Mark Ping wrote:
> > In article <1156818017.639800.295490@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
> > Trans <transfire@gmail.com> 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.

Let me complete that thought. What does make sense of course is:

  Array.new( obj0, obj1, obj2, ... )

T.