From: "alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)" Date: 2013-09-02T18:52:49+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:56966] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7292] Enumerable#to_h Issue #7292 has been updated by alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov). I understand that using #to_a or #first and #last directly would give an unexpected result when calling #to_h on a collection of strings, for example, but one is not supposed to call #to_h on a collection of strings, or #to_h should be preceded with #select. The two #next and one #raise look a bit like a defensive programming to me, and could cause an unnecessary slowdown. Wouldn't it be better to let the user decide when to precede #to_h with #select? ---------------------------------------- Feature #7292: Enumerable#to_h https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7292#change-41540 Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) 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/