On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter / googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2008/3/25, Jesù¸ Gabriel y GaláÏ <jgabrielygalan / gmail.com>:
>  > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Robert Klemme
>  >  <shortcutter / googlemail.com> wrote:

>  No, this has nothing to do with immediate values.  The reason why this
>  works is that an operation is used that creates a new instance
>  (Fixnum#+ in this case) and uses assignment to place a new value on
>  every iteration.  This also works with arrays and other non immediate
>  and even mutable instances:
>
>  irb(main):001:0> collector = Hash.new []
>  => {}
>  irb(main):002:0> 10.times {|i| collector[i%3] += [i]}
>  => 10

Ah, ok, now I see what you mean. I didn't consider this case, because
you are creating intermediate arrays every iteration. In my head I was
equating the += for Fixnums with << for Arrays in this idiom, if you see
what I mean.

Thanks,

Jesus.