From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T17:29:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [][100000000] = 1 whee!



On Nov 17, 10:39 am, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com>
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.

Ah, a "sparse array". Is there value in this? I once re-implemented
Array using a Hash as the underlying store. It was just for fun and
now sits in my "trinkets" drawer. Should I release it?

T. Rinkets