From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-11-09T11:15:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Multi-dimensional (like 2) arrays in Ruby

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Ted wrote:

> Does Ruby support other than 1 dimensional arrays?

class Array
  def Array.Array dims, default=nil, accum=[]
    if dims.size == 1
      return Array.new(dims[0], default)
    else
      return accum = Array.new(dims.shift, Array.Array(dims, default, accum))
    end
  end
end

m = Array.Array [4,3,2], 42

p m >>

[[[42, 42], [42, 42], [42, 42]], [[42, 42], [42, 42], [42, 42]], [[42, 42], [42, 42], [42, 42]], [[42, 42], [42, 42], [42, 42]]]


-a

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