Language immersion means you dream in it. In my case, I made code that created pineapple slices out of thin air.
In my dream, a pineapple materialized, hovered in midair, then magically was cut info perfect slices. This may have been partly inspired by a certain popular game having to do with fruit and ninjas.
Since the 3-d printers aren't up to fresh fruit yet, you can do the closest thing by slicing up an array.
Code:
pineapple = [:rooty, :tooty, :fresh, :and, :fruity]
#Now make the first slice:
pineapple[0,1]
=> [:rooty]
You might think this would return:
=> [:rooty, :tooty]
If you're cutting a slice of pineapple, you need to cut twice - once for each edge of the piece.
For arrays, you're cutting into the space around the elements.
So pineapple[0,1] starts just before :rooty (making the first cut) and ends just between :rooty and :tooty (second cut).
The remaining slices are:
Code:
pineapple [1,1]
=> [:tooty]
pineapple [2,1]
=> [:fresh]
pineapple [3,1]
=> [:n]
pineapple [4,1]
=> [:fruity]
You can see that the arguments [0,1] don't measure the span (i.e., from space 0 before :rooty to space 1 after it) -- instead, they start at space 0 and go 1 span forward.
Slicing also simply returns values. It doesn't change the array or create any new ones.
Much like pineapples...it's good and good for you.
Edited 6 times. Last edit by Ruby Spurs on May 24, 2011 at 11:36:59 PM (about one year ago).
Ruby Spurs
Chris Luger
