Nested arrays

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Hi,

I'm new to this gem called ruby, but having difficulties generating nested
arrays. Why is: var = Array.new(p, Array.new(q, 0)) not the same as:
var = Array.new(p) {Array.new(q, 0)} ?? (I know the later one works, but it
took me ages for figuring this out :D)

Thnx for your answer.. Mathias

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Because in the first case you provide just a single object that is used for initialization while the second case you provide a code block that is executed once for each array element to initialize. Does that help?

Kind regards

    robert

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Mathias <nospam@xxx.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to this gem called ruby, but having difficulties generating
nested arrays. Why is: var = Array.new(p, Array.new(q, 0)) not the
same as:
var = Array.new(p) {Array.new(q, 0)} ?? (I know the later one works,
but it took me ages for figuring this out :D)

Thnx for your answer.. Mathias

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Hi Robert,

nested arrays. Why is: var = Array.new(p, Array.new(q, 0)) not the
same as:
var = Array.new(p) {Array.new(q, 0)} ?? (I know the later one works,
but it took me ages for figuring this out :D)

Thnx for your answer.. Mathias

Because in the first case you provide just a single object that is used
for initialization while the second case you provide a code block that is
executed once for each array element to initialize. Does that help?

Yepp, and "language reference" says:
Array.new(size, obj) means [... is created with size copies of obj (that is,
size references to the same obj)..] I possible read the _same_ over and
over again ;).

thanks for fast reply, Mathias