From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-11-26T02:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby internals & other questions

On 25.11.2009 17:29, Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
> Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
>> y=0
>> 1_000_000.times {|x| y+=x}
> 
> y = (1..1_000_000).inject { |a, b| a + b }

There is an issue with this approach.  The proper implementation for the 
general case of summing any number of values would look like this:

y = (1..1_000_000).inject(0) { |a, b| a + b }

Kind regards

	robert


PS: Yes, I deliberately left out the explanation what the issue is. :-)

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