From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2002-10-08T22:16:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Clearing arrays etc. in extensions


At 08:53 PM 10/8/2002 +0900, kjana@dm4lab.to wrote:

>That's what done in rb_ary_clear(), implementing Array#clear and
>is exported for C extension in intern.h :-)

Thank you so much!  I knew that there was a simple answer
in there some where.

As a general question, using rb_ary_clear(arr) seems clearer
than rb_funcall(arr, rb_intern("clear"), 0).  Is there any
downside (besides the fact that it is "undocumented" and
buried in intern.h ;-)?



-mark.