From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-04-24T00:30:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Hash.remove

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Hi --

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Florian Gro=DF wrote:

> Andrew Walrond wrote:
>
>> Something I often find useful is a version of Hash.delete which returns =
the=20
>> 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=
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> multiple keys?

Or a delete_at for hash (similar to the array one).


David

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