Re: Update to Array#join

On Feb 14, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Gary Wright wrote:

>
> 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'.

try something like:

Every sub-array is converted to a string by applying join  
recursively, essentially flattening the array.