From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T22:48:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom for creating hash from two arrays

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 08:30 am, 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.

I guess b/c Hash.new already takes a hash-default. Perhaps with keyword 
arguments...

T.