From: "E.-R. Bruecklmeier" <unet01@...>
Date: 2004-05-11T18:18:59+09:00
Subject: [Q] Array.new - strange behavior

dear rubyists,

today i noticed a strange bahavior in Array.new while defining multi 
dimentional arrays:

p "P1"
foo = Array.new(3,[0,0])
foo.each do |foo1|
   p foo1.id
end

p "P2"
foo = Array.new
3.times {foo.push [0,0]}
foo.each do |foo1|
   p foo1.id
end


produces:

"P1"
19645868
19645868
19645868
"P2"
19645760
19645748
19645736
Completed(0)

Is it intentional that the new method fills the array with just one 
instance of [0,0]? In my sense this is a violation of the PoLS.

Thanks for any hints.

Eric.