From: "marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)" Date: 2013-08-31T07:38:29+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:56893] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7292][Open] Enumerable#to_h Issue #7292 has been updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune). File to_h.pdf added Status changed from Feedback to Open matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote: > But I am not sure the following simple implementation works OK, e.g. what if an element is a object, or number, or anything not two-element array. Agreed. I believe we should only treat elements that are array-like and of length 2. More explicitly, either the Enumerable yields one value that responds_to?(:to_ary) and returns a 2-element array, or the Enumerable yields exactly two values. Other cases should be ignored, in the same way that String#to_i ignores invalid characters. Slide attached. ---------------------------------------- Feature #7292: Enumerable#to_h https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7292#change-41441 Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) Status: Open Priority: Low Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: core Target version: next minor Now that #to_h is the official method for explicit conversion to Hash, we should also add Enumerable#to_h: Returns a hash for the yielded key-value pairs. [[:name, 'Joe Smith'], [:age, 42]].to_h # => {name: 'Joe Smith', age: 42} With the Ruby tradition of succint documentation I suggest the documentation talk about key-value pairs and there is no need to be explicit about the uninteresting cases like: (1..3).to_h # => {1 => nil, 2 => nil, 3 => nil} [[1, 2], [1, 3]].to_h # => {1 => 3} [[1, 2], []].to_h # => {1 => 2, nil => nil} I see some reactions of people reading about the upcoming 2.0 release like this one: http://globaldev.co.uk/2012/11/ruby-2-0-0-preview-features/#dsq-comment-body-700242476 -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/