From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-01-03T14:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8555] Re: initializing objects

tonys@myspleenklug.on.ca (tony summerfelt) writes:

> is there NO way to initialize a large number of objects in ruby?

     planets = Array.new(1000)
     planets.size.times do |i|
         planets[i] = Planet.new
     end

I'm still very confused about what you're trying to do. You have a
large number of these planet objects. Why not just store them in a
hash or an array. If you need to access them by name, then a hash
would be better:

    planets = Hash.new

    planets['earth'] = Planet.new(....)

I can't imagine _any_ program needing 1000 variables to point to 1000
different objects of the same class.


Dave