From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-25T16:42:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#to_h

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Robert Klemme wrote:

> Daniel Sheppard wrote:
>> Problem is - which [].to_h is intuitive. There's a to_h in nano:
>>
>> http://nano.rubyforge.org/doc/classes/Array.html#M000057
>>
>> You can already do:
>>
>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>> hash = a.inject({}) {|h,x| h[x] = x*2}
>
> Won't work.  This at least has to be
>
> hash = a.inject({}) {|h,x| h[x] = x*2;h}

i've been writing that this way lately, just because i looks better:

   hash = a.inject({}){|h,x| h.update x => x*2}

creates an xtra hash - but less anoying that ;h

-a
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