From: Mike Austin <"mike[nospam]"@...> Date: 2008-11-17T21:56:39+09:00 Subject: [][100000000] = 1 whee! :) Just curious as to why Ruby automatically increases an array's size when items are added. I could see where it would be convenient, but it also seems like bad practice. One can, and should use a hash as a sparse array. Mike