From: Mike Austin <"mike[nospam]"@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T14:06:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [][100000000] = 1 whee!

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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
> 

True enough :)  But what about in terms of practicality?  Does it make working 
with arrays that much simpler?  I use Ruby Arrays as stacks mostly, where you 
don't run into setting values outside the current range.

~ Mike