From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T13:47:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Silly idea: map-like method produces array

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WATANABE Hirofumi" <eban@os.rim.or.jp>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Silly idea: map-like method produces array


> % irb
> >> x, y, z = [0] * 3
> => [0, 0, 0]
> >> a, b, c, d, e = [[]] * 5
> => [[], [], [], [], []]
> >> s1, s2, s3 = ["hello"] * 3
> => ["hello", "hello", "hello"]

Ah, never thought of that!

Too bad it requires an array... 
the brackets make it a little uglier.

Thanks!

Hal