From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-31T02:54:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Array.step

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Eric Mahurin wrote:

> What's wrong with the block form of Array.new?
>
> Array.new(5) { |i| i }
> Array.new(5) { |i| -i }
> Array.new(3) { |i| 1+2*i }
> Array.new(3) { |i| -(1+2*i) }
> Array.new(3) { |i| i }
> Array.new(3) { |i| -i }
> Array.new(8){ |i| 2 ** i }
> Array.new(10){ |i| i.modulo(2).zero? }

nothing.  just verbosity and brain power requirements ;-)

-a
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