From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-07-26T00:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Interesting Array Initialization Typo


On Jul 25, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Maciej Tomaka wrote:

> When initializing for example : [ [1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 2] ]
>
> You may forget about one colon, you will get:
>
>>> [ [1, 2] [2, 3], [3, 2] ]
> => [[], [3, 2]]
>
> No syntax error:) No warnings here, beware! :)
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>

it's not a syntax error, it's the same as this

cfp:~ > ruby -e'  p(  ( array = [1,2] )[ index = [2,3] ]  )  '


which is the same as

cfp:~ > ruby -e'  array = [1,2];  index = [2,3];  p array[*index]'
[]


[1, 2] [2, 3]  is the array '[1,2]' indexed by '2,3'


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