From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-10-08T22:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Clearing arrays etc. in extensions

Hello Mark,

Tuesday, October 08, 2002, 5:16:28 PM, you wrote:


MP> 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 :-)

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

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

of course! :)  it can be overloaded, stolen or made private :)

so you must decide what you want - just clear the array or order array to
clear itself :)


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