From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T11:16:18+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the ruby way to do this?

On 11/22/05, Ara.T.Howard <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> 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.

Yeah that is nuts...but I really like it :)

Ryan