From: Sam McCall <tunah.usenet@...>
Date: 2004-09-09T13:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Unified type conversion framework

Florian Gross wrote:
> Paul Brannan wrote:
> 
>> I think you mean Hash[*anArray].  IMO, It's not totally unintuitive, but
>> it's not consistent with other conversions.
> 
> 
> Actually converting an assoc array to a Hash is done via 
> Hash[*array.flatten]. I think that that is pretty low level. I'd prefer 
> something like Hash.from_assoc()

At work we have Array#to_h in a library, it's really useful for things like:

db.select_all(...).map {|foo,bar| [foo,bar]}.to_h

Sam