From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-09-16T02:30:46+09:00
Subject: Re: performance and style advice requested

>>>>> "A" == Alex Martelli <aleaxit@yahoo.com> writes:

A> Oh my!  I had no idea Ruby suffered under such a handicap wrt to Python
A> (that arrays had to be converted to strings to index into hashes, while
A> Python can use "tuples", its equivalent of frozen arrays, for that) --

svg% ruby -e 'a = {[1, 2] => 12}; p a.keys[0].class'
Array
svg% 

A> then I must definitely be very sparing in using hashes with multi-dim
A> indexes in Ruby, at least in any bottleneck.  Thanks!  Just the kind of
A> things I'm trying to learn

 then forget it :-)


Guy Decoux