From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2001-03-29T23:12:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13326] Re: hash slice implementaion

Dave Thomas writes:

# matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
# 
# > |I'd like to use Perl's hash slice feature in Ruby.
# > |Here is my implemetation of hash slice.
# > |How about this code?
# > 
# > It's interesting.  The only reason hash#[] does not accept multiple
# > argument for slice is consistency with array, which uses [] argument
# > differently.  If consensus is made, I'd like to merge it.  But I
# > doubt.
# 
# Given that we've got Hash#indices (OK, not the best of names,
# admittedly), and given that we've got parallel assignment, I think
# I'd personally vote of consistency over Perl compatibility in this
# case.

For future reference, does anyone have a (good, clever, obvious)
recommendation to (past, present, future) Perl converts for how they
should handle this in idiomatic Ruby?

Conrad Schneiker
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