From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-12-23T17:01:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's implementation of Fixnum-assignment

2009/12/22 Benoit Daloze <eregontp@gmail.com>:
> I would add than using i += 1 is often doing it the wrong way in Ruby. We
> use Enumerable most of the time, and try to not create any index (because
> that's awful, you need an initialization(i=0), a step to go forward(i+=1),
> and you keep a useless index at the end).

Note sure about your "often" - iterating in the majority of cases can
certainly be done without indexing an Array.  There are other uses for
"a += 1" though - such as counting.

Kind regards

robert

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