From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T11:52:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing Hash elements in sorted order?

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 15:34, Jim Haungs wrote:
> One of the nifty abstractions in Smalltalk that is missing in Ruby is
> the Association class. 

     Yes!  That's what I was thinking of when I suggested that '=>'
should be an operator rather than a local syntax hack.  I was thinking
it would return a one element Hash (my smalltalk is so rusty I don't
even squeak) but having Associations would be much better!

     -- MarkusQ