From: "duerst (Martin Dürst)" <duerst@...>
Date: 2012-03-30T15:02:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:43925] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6225] Hash#+


Issue #6225 has been updated by duerst (Martin D��rst).


In common sense, * is also commutative. But of course, for matrix multiplication, it's not.

Also, + is used in many fields of mathematics. I'm not a mathematician, but I very strongly doubt that it's commutative in all these cases. (see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2081 for an example)

What's much more important is whether the + for Hash fits the general image a Ruby programmer has for +. I'm not exactly sure about this, but the parallel with Array is not too bad.
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Feature #6225: Hash#+
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6225#change-25448

Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0


Strings and Arrays can be combined with #+. I don't see any reason not to allow Hashes to do so as well.

  class Hash
    alias :+ :merge
  end



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