[#6363] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

17 messages 2000/11/14
[#6367] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2000/11/14

Hello again --

[#6582] best way to interleaf arrays? — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

15 messages 2000/11/26

[#6646] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Ross asked something about widely known and largely ignored language (on

23 messages 2000/11/29
[#6652] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — rpmohn@... (Ross Mohn) 2000/11/29

aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com (Aleksi Niemel) wrote in

[#6723] Re: Array Intersect (&) question — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2000/12/01

> >Use a hash. Here's code to do both and more. It assumes that

[#6656] printing/accessing arrays and hashes — raja@... (Raja S.)

I'm coming to Ruby with a Python & Common Lisp background.

24 messages 2000/11/30

[ruby-talk:6660] Re: printing/accessing arrays and hashes

From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2000-11-30 02:25:08 UTC
List: ruby-talk #6660
Hello --

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Raja S. wrote:

> raja@cs.indiana.edu (Raja S.) writes:
> 
> I answer to part of my earlier post I've come up with the following using
> Ruby's neat ability to extend the functionality of builtin types/classes:
> 
> class Array
>   def to_s ()
>     ans=""
>     for i in (0...self.length-1)
>       ans += self[i].to_s + ", "
>     end
>     ans += self[-1].to_s if (self.length>0)
>     return "[" + ans + "]"
>   end
> end
> 
> I take it there is no pre-defined way then?

(See Dave's remarks on #inspect.)

If you want to do the above (but with less typing :-) try:

  def to_s
    "[" + join(", ") + "]"
  end


David

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