From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-09-20T05:55:03+09:00
Subject: Re: special Array method about Unix pathes

On 19.09.2007 21:26, Une B�vue wrote:
> Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I can think of several approaches to solve this:
>>
>> 1. order the array and do a second iteration where each item is
>> checked against the last seen prefix; the idea is that every string
>> comes before the strings that contain it as prefix.
> 
> fine, the Array is allready ordered elsewhere, i thought putting sort!
> in this method ))

If it's sorted anyway that's probably the approach I'd take.

>> 2. insert names into a tree and output only prefixes during a tree walk.
> 
> ok, i see what you mean, may be better not to do that when output rather
> than when building the three having a means to compare three deepness.

I am not sure what you mean here.  You have to build the tree first 
before you can decide which branches you can omit.  With "output" I did 
not necessarily mean output to screen, but rather output from the 
method.  Maybe I should have chosen a different wording.  I am sorry if 
that caused confusion.

>> B�vue, the only issue I see with your method naming is that in Ruby
>> methods typically use under_scores and not CamelCase as in Java.
> 
> Yes i've corrected that, it's an habit coming from java, as the getter
> "getContainers!"...

Different languages, different conventions. :-)

Kind regards

	robert