From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-12T10:00:37+09:00
Subject: Re: shortcut for x = [x] unless x.is_a?(Array)

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Jeremy Weiskotten
<jeremy.weiskotten@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aryk Grosz wrote:
>  > Is there any prettier or cleaner way to write
>  >
>  >  x = [x] unless x.is_a?(Array)
>
>  x = [x].flatten
>
>  Although I suspect the x = Array(x) method would be faster.

Yeah, but those are a little different, too...

x = [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2]]
p x.flatten

=> [1, 2, 3, 1, 2]

x = [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2]]
p Array(x)

=> [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2]]

Todd