From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T12:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird variable scope behaviour...

On Sep 23, 8:05 pm, "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality"
<ihates...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Phrogz" <phr...@mac.com> wrote in message
> > I accept it in the same way I accept that arrays and hashes have, in
> > some cases, traded purity for speed. It ain't perfect, but it's what
> > we got.
>
>     I'm interested in to what you're referring, here.  How was purity of
> arrays and hashes compromised for speed?

Things like the fact that Hash and Array literals don't call their
#initialize method, or that all Array methods that fetch values from
the array don't fall back on a single method that one can intercept or
override.