Summary: 1/20/2011
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Learning Ruby
Ruby Arrays and Lists
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Enumerated Type ­ Ruby doesn't have
them
But there are cool workarounds
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Implementation of Arrays
· Ruby's Arrays are backed by actual C arrays.
Wh fi t d l b i ([]When you first declare a basic array ([] or
Array.new) an instance of the RArray struct is
created, and it points to a C array which is
allocated with a size of 16.
· When we need more space­ we increase the p
size by half again of the needed size and copy
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Source: Allan, Vicki H. - Department of Computer Science, Utah State University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences