From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-03-07T04:23:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12170] Re: disassembling and reassembling a hash

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Christoph Rippel wrote:

> "Raja S." <raja@cs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
> news:982srj$1p1$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu...
>
> > Question: since we have #to_a, #keys, #values --- all used to disassemble
> a
> >           hash would it be useful to enhance Hash.new(key,values) in the
> >           core to assemble a hash from an array of keys and values?
> >           Shouldn't break anything existing (I think).
> 
> I agree - you should post this as a RCR IMO (I would prefer a new class
> function in Hash like Hash.make(keys,values))

See [ruby-talk:10912] and subsequent discussion -- also the RCR in
[ruby-talk:11195], which is a little different but related (sort of a
first step, perhaps).


David

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