From: Matt Sergeant <matt@...>
Date: 2001-03-30T01:10:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13329] Re: hash slice implementaion

Conrad Schneiker wrote:
> 
> 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?

array#slice() and array#slice()=

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