From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-21T17:39:55+09:00
Subject: Re: combine array(string) to string?

On 20.03.2008 21:48, Todd Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Robert Klemme
> <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 20.03.2008 11:49, Todd Benson wrote:
>>  > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Pat Kiatchaipipat <hb.pat87@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>  >> str= "ABCDE"
>>  >>  arr = Array.new
>>  >
>>  > You really don't need to declare your type.  The arr = Array.new
>>  > statement is unnecessary.
>>
>>  Sorry to be nitpicky, this is in no way a type declaration.  It is just
>>  a superfluous object creation and assignment.
> 
> Okay, "the instantiation of the Array object is unnecessary".  From
> some newbies, I've seen them pull this type of code practice from
> fortran, pascal, c, etc... so I used the phrase "declare your type".

I can see where that comes from and I did not want to disregard the 
point you were trying to make.  I just thought it a bit unfortunate that 
your wording kind of encourages the practice by insinuating that there 
is indeed something like a variable type declaration in Ruby. :-)

Cheers

	robert