From: "A. S. Bradbury" <asbradbury@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T23:44:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Puzzling bug with yielded array

On Friday 08 September 2006 14:59, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> your method first returns a list to the caller but, later, munges it in
> place without the caller's consent.  this is as evil as returning pointer
> to member in c--.

I really appreciate your detailed reply, the problem is very clear now and 
hopefully I've learnt from it.

A more general question - how would you (ruby-talk readers) implement this 
method? Two people on #ruby-lang suggested I make it recursive, but I really 
don't see this sort of tree traversal mapping to a recursive method, am I 
wrong?

Alex