From: Jeremy <thinker5555@...>
Date: 2003-03-24T13:55:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about behavior of Array.new

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Monday, March 24, 2003, 4:12:39 AM, Jeremy wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
> 
>> I recently used the following in a program (game) I'm working on:
> 
>> board = Array.new(9,Space.new)
> 
> A common idiom applied to this case yields:
> 
>   board = (0..9).map { Space.new }
> 
> I think this is covered in the newcomers' list.  Check it out (in the
> documentation bundle at www.ruby-doc.org) for other gotchas.
> 

Thank you for pointing out the documentation bundle at ruby-doc.org.  I now
have that one sitting happily on my hard drive.

On a broader note, I appreciate everybody's response on this subject.  These
have been good suggestions on working with this "gotcha".  Thanks for the
help.

Jeremy