From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T21:19:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Array disorder in ruby 1.8.6

2008/4/4, Frantisek Havluj <moskyt@rozhled.cz>:

>  I suppose I found a bug in ruby (or behavior that I am unable to
>  explain). My version is, exactly, ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0)
>  [universal-darwin8.0]
>
>  problem is in this method:
>
>  def plotresults(results,runset)
>         ...
>   runset.each{|k| f.printf("%-*s",ns,k)}
>         ...
>  end
>
>  .each iterator just prints the items of the runset array out of order.

What exactly do you mean by "out of order"?  What order?  What type is runset?

>  however, if I just evaluate the array anywhere in the method, everything
>  is ok:

What do you mean be "evaluate"?

>  def plotresults(results,runset)
>         runset
>         ...
>   runset.each{|k| f.printf("%-*s",ns,k)}
>         ...
>  end
>
>  Not much more to say about that. Can anybody explain to me why Ruby
>  should behave like that?

You need to say more about that - otherwise we can't say much more about it.

Cheers

robert

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