From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2011-08-23T01:38:25+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby some problems


On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Adam Prescott wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, I didn't read the problem closely enough (too early in the
>> morning!). You need to pass a ROW and COLUMN to set or get a value in your
>> matrix instead of just a single value like I posted above.
>> 
>> Something like this might be a good start (untested).
>> 
>> class Matrix
>> [...]
>> 
>> def set(x, y, value)
>>   @array[index(x, y)] = value
>> end
>> 
>> def get(x, y)
>>   @array[index(x,y)]
>> end
>> 
>> [...]
>> end
>> 
> 
> Not sure if you know this, but you can actually still use the [] approach
> with multiple arguments, to avoid "set" and "get" method names. A stupid
> example:

I did *not* know that! Thanks for telling me.

cr