From: Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T00:33:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom for creating hash from two arrays

David A. Black wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Jonathan Paisley wrote:
>>
>> In addition, it would be nice if keys and values need not be arrays -
>> just Enumerables. Implementing this may be a bit tricky, however.
> 
> Very :-)  I wouldn't want to create a hash from one of these:
> 
>   class Forever
>     include Enumerable
>     def each
>       i = 1
>       loop { yield i += 1 }
>     end
>   end

That's a fairly pathological case.  Should we therefore deny all the 
other more useful applications of Enumerable in this context?

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