"Joaquin Sitte" <j.sitte at qut.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Yoshiki,
>  
> >> map_ Som new: 30
> >> map from: 1 to: map size put: (FloatArray new: 4).
>  
> >  This sets it up so that only one FloatArray instance is created and
> >it will be pointed to by all the 30 slots of 'map' object.
>  
> >  (map first identityHash) = (map last identityHash)
>  
> >will be true.
>  
> This explains the behaviour. But this does not seem to be a terribly useful
> way of doing things, at least not for my purpose. What is the proper way to
> define a  separate vector for every element in the map?

	1 to: map size do:[:i| map at: i put: (FloatArray new: 4)]
would make a new and separate FloatArray object for each iteration.
The problem is that you chanced upon a method that is intended to be a shortcut
way of filling a collection with the >same< object in every slot.


tim
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