From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-15T07:06:19+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: not finding a breakpoint + values are nil

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Dan Bensen wrote:

> Ruby seems to be passing over a breakpoint in a class initialize function. 
> "Got grid" is the only break that occurs before the program hits a bug.  What 
> is Grid.new doing, and how come the "Grid initialized" breakpoint wasn't 
> found or didn't work?
>
> grid after "Got grid":
> => [[nil, nil, nil], [nil, nil, nil], [nil, nil, nil]]
>
> In file controllers/t3_controller.rb:
> ...
>  grid = Grid.new(gridStr)
>  breakpoint "Got grid"
> ...
>
> In file controllers/t3/t3lib.rb:
>
> module Cell
>  class Val < String
>    def isBlank
>      self == BLANK
>    end
>  end
>  BLANK = Val.new(' ')
> end
>
> class Grid < Array
>  def initialize(array = ())
>    super(3) { |row| Array.new(3,Cell::BLANK) }
>    breakpoint "Grid initialized"
> ...


if you haven't used narray you should check it out - it'll give you beautiful
numerical grids with blinding speed in few lines of code...

fyi.

-a
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