From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2008-11-17T23:14:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [][100000000] = 1 whee!

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:56:39PM +0900, Mike Austin wrote:
> :) 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.

Your answer is in your question. "One can, and should, use a hash as a
sparse array." If you want a sparse array, use a Hash. And Array is an
array, and acts like one.

> Mike
--Greg