From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T10:58:02+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the ruby way to do this?

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, David A. Black wrote:
> 
>> Hi --
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jeff Wood wrote:
>>
>>> I would do
>>>
>>> a = Hash.new { || [] }
>>
>>
>> I believe that's the first empty || I've ever seen.  It's awfully
>> confusing (my first reaction was: *what* or an empty array? :-)  I'd
>> strongly encourage you to eschew that construct.  It's deservedly
>> unheard of :-)
> 
> 
> i must confess i love it!  probably won't use it much.  but i love it.

I love it too, and will use it simply because David said he'd never seen 
it before.



James

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