From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-08-17T15:02:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 2 Idea:  You've got to have a[a][b][c][d][e][f][g][h][i]...

From: "Xeno Campanoli" <xeno@eskimo.com>
>
> There are just too many problems that can quickly be solved by 
> multi-dimensional arrays and hashes not to have them and have them 
> easily.  I used the hack from "matz" today to make a 2d hash, and it's 
> ugly and unworthy of Ruby. You should be able to do this without any 
> extra steps just like in Perl.  If the project ends up getting bigger 
> THEN you refactor it, but YOU JUST GOT TO HAVE THAT.

I don't know how to do it with Array, because Array doesn't
seem to accept a block for its default value generation like
Hash does.

But with Hash:

hoh = lambda { Hash.new {|h,k| h[k] = hoh.call} }

>> x = hoh.call    # create autovivifying hash-of-hashes
=> {}
>> x[1][2][3][4][5] = "spleen"
=> "spleen"
>> x
=> {1=>{2=>{3=>{4=>{5=>"spleen"}}}}}


Regards,

Bill