From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-03-24T02:20:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about behavior of Array.new

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy" <thinker5555@yahoo.com>

I recently used the following in a program (game) I'm working on:

board = Array.new(9,Space.new)

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Can anyone enlighten me on this?
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What you are doing is the same as this:

  justOneSpace = Space.new
  board = Array.new(9,justOneSpace)

Make more sense now?  You weren't passing in the *code* `Space.new', just
the object it returned.  If you want to pass in the *code*, use a block:

  board = Array.new(9) {Space.new}

That was a good question.  Maybe I should put this in my tutorial.

Chris