From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2002-02-07T01:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#splice method


On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, michael libby wrote:

> Thanks (to everyone) for the great answers. Once again Ruby excels at this
> stuff (so far every example in the book turns out to be easier in Ruby
> than in Perl-- I hope this is a trend {grin}).
> 
> (on Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:16:57 +0900) Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
> > 	class Array
> > 	  def splice(i,n,v)
> > 	    r = slice!(i,n); self[i,0]=v; r
> > 	  end
> > 	end
> I did have to modify this to:

Okay, so my 2nd proposal was buggy. The former, iirc, was better.

by the way, for it to look more like Perl's splice, the method signature
should be (i,n,*v) instead of (i,n,v)... because Perl's splice has
variable number of args.

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