Re: Update to Array#join

Gary Wright <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:39:35 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> I think it's far clearer to simply say that the array is flattened  
> (in effect, though not by calling #flatten) before being joined.
>

Yes, I thought about that but #flatten isn't actually called and so
I thought that would be misleading.  Also it would imply that an
intermediate representation of the array is constructed, which also
isn't true.  I figured that adding the caveats would be more confusing
then simply avoiding the term 'flatten'.

Gary Wright