From: David MacMahon <davidm@...>
Date: 2013-08-17T11:07:38-07:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56693] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8772] Hash alias #|	merge, and the case for Hash and Array polymorphism


On Aug 17, 2013, at 8:55 AM, alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov) wrote:

> Maybe it is ok to use Hash#<< as #merge or similar.  It would be nice however IMO to have something similar for #reverse_merge too.

I completely agree that it would be nice to have an operator for Hash that behaved similar to reverse_merge.  Using Hash#| as a reverse_merge-ish operator is being discussed in #7739.  I think I would end up using the reverse_merge-ish operator more than the merge-ish operator.

Dave