From: "Wayne E. Seguin" <wayneeseguin@...>
Date: 2007-09-12T22:51:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on loops and stacks

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On Sep 11, 2007, at 17:10 , Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 11.09.2007 21:01, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
>> I was thinking about some of the design issues in my dice.rb script:
>>     http://www2.codegnome.org:59321/scripting/showscript.php? 
>> script=dice.rb
>> and one of the major issues is queueing. I'd like to ensure that
>> selecting multiple URLs doesn't overwrite the current contents  
>> from the
>> previous X selection, so I was thinking what I needed to do was
>> implement a FIFO stack.
> <snip>

Did you try this?

 >> array = [1,2,3,4,5]
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
 >> array.shift
=> 1
 >> array
=> [2, 3, 4, 5]
 >> array << 6
=> [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
 >> array
=> [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
 >> array.shift
=> 2

   ~Wayne

s///g
Wayne E. Seguin
Sr. Systems Architect & Systems Administrator


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