From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T00:39:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [][100000000] = 1 whee!

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.

Because it's an array, not a sparse array.

- Charlie