From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-04-23T23:37:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Hash.remove

Andrew Walrond wrote:

> Something I often find useful is a version of Hash.delete which returns the 
> hash rather than the deleted item. Useful for terse chained code.

You want to do hash.delete("foo").delete("bar").delete("qux").

Why don't you do this?

%w(foo bar qux).each do |key|
   hash.delete(key)
end

New keys can easily be added and is not repetitive at all.

Perhaps you could instead change your proposal to make .delete() accept 
multiple keys?