From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-08-18T20:37:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you print the first 5 records in an array?

Hi --

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Dirk Bruijn wrote:

> Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
>> Dirk Bruijn wrote:
>> 
>>> Stefano Crocco wrote:
>>> 
>>
>> 
>>>> puts @people [0..4]
>>>> 
>>> 0.upto(4) { |x| puts @people[x]}
>>> 
>> 
>> Why do you feel that that's preferable to Stefano's solution?
>> 
>>
>> 
> It's not. I mistakenly placed my reaction on the wrong leaf.

I'd avoid iterating through a whole array just to puts its elements,
but in this case your code avoids creating a temporary sub-array. So
there might be some reason to use that technique.


David

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