From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-29T05:36:20+09:00
Subject: Re: << == push?

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Giles Bowkett wrote:
>
>> I was just prepping a code sample for somebody out in the big wide
>> world, and doing that always makes me review my code, and I noticed I
>> was using Array#push a lot instead of << (I think that's Array#<<
>> actually?).
>> 
>> So, kind of a basic question, is << basically just idiomatic Ruby for
>> push? (This was a Rails project with a lot of custom JavaScript and I
>> think I just got in that particular mindset.)
>
> I *think* the only difference is that push can take more than one
> argument.

also

   << : generally returns self to allow chaining

   push : generally returns the elements pushed

-a
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