From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2008-12-29T00:34:44+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby: copying arrays?

* John Park <jcpark@soulmutation.com> (11:50) schrieb:

> Hi.  First-time poster here.  I've done some programming in Delphi
> before (like 10 years ago), and I wanted to get back to programming as a
> hobby.  I've looked at several languages, and Ruby looked the funnest.
> :)  So here I am.

Cool.

> To store the board state, I decided to make an instance variable @board
> which is a two-dimensional array of 9x9.  And there would be several
> methods that will manipulate the board.

Why do you want to do that? A standard Sudoku consists of 81 cells that
ordered in three different ways. Why prefer one order by your picking of
coordinates?

> Right now, the only workarounds I can think of are: 1) store the data in
> one long one-dimensional array,

That's what I did.

mfg,                       simon .... l