From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-01T04:17:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03731] Re: Why it's quiet -- Ruby features -- Arrays

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03729] Re: Why it's quiet -- Ruby features -- Arrays"
    on 00/06/30, Conrad Schneiker <schneik@austin.ibm.com> writes:

|Please excuse my imprecision with regard to "built in"--I tend think of
|the standard (i.e. as shipped, out-of-the-(tar-file)-box) Ruby library as
|an integral (i.e. official) part of Ruby. My primary concern is that
|multidimensional arrays be supported "out of the box" as a standard
|class/objects/datatype that everyone refers to the same way.

In summary, it's quite possible that future distibution includes
multidimentional array, like socket.  But it would not be "built in"
i.e. built into the interpreter like String/Array/Bignum etc.

							matz.