From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2000-12-16T13:02:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7389] Re: Replacing nils in arrays?

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From: hipster <hipster@xs4all.nl>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:48 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:7302] Re: Replacing nils in arrays?


> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000  07:40:01 +0900, hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:
> > Question for you all.
> > 
> > Suppose you have an array that is growing
> > more or less unpredictably. You assign an
> > element that is past the current end, and
> > you get several new nils as a result.
> > 
> > My problem: I want to store zeroes, not
> > nils.
> 
> quick hack:
> 
> 
> class Array
>   attr_accessor :default_value
> 

[snip]

Quite right. Thanks Michel (and others who
responded). I ended up subclassing Array
and doing much this same thing.

Hal