From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2001-03-30T02:23:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13332] Re: hash slice implementaion

Matt Sergeant wrote:

# 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()=

"Re: hash slice implementaion"?

Conrad Schneiker
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