From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T11:05:16+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the ruby way to do this?

Hi --

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, 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.

Keep it firmly in mind if there's every another obfuscated Ruby
contest.... :-)


David

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David A. Black
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