From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T07:54:11+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the ruby way to do this?

Note that a "Ruby" hint would be to get rid of your "is_a?",  
preferring to use "respond_to?" instead.

You could get fancier and just call "<<" on everything, catching  
exceptions and handling them for objects that don't implement that  
method.

Caleb

On Nov 22, 2005, at 5:42 PM, ako... wrote:

> thank you. this assumes that the hash's default value is nil. but this
> is a good enough assumption for my purposes. i was hoping to avoid
> creating one-element arrays and still have the simplicity of a single
> line solution but i guess this cant be done. thanks for your help.
>
> konstantin
>
>