From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T22:43:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom for creating hash from two arrays

Hi --

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Glenn Parker wrote:

> Jonathan Paisley wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 05:43:42 +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 12:42 pm, Jonathan Paisley wrote:
>>> | def Hash.from_pairs(keys,values) # or some better name
>>> 
>>> zipnew ?
>> 
>> 
>> Hash.zipnew ... I quite like the similarity to Hash.new, and the inclusion
>> of the already familiar zip idea is also a good thing. 
>
> Why does it need a new name?  Instead, why not extend Hash.new to do this 
> when it is passed two arrays?  It seems pretty natural to me, and I don't see 
> any conflict with existing usage.

What if you wanted to set a default value for the hash?


David

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