From: Dan Diebolt Date: 2005-12-13T08:41:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Way to combing Hash Definition sans => with %w() ? --0-2133610757-1134430869=:39139 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Hash[*%w(apple bananna orange grape)] Thanks but what exactly is the asterisk doing (what's the receiver)? I started looking for a to_hash method and found the proposal rejected earlier: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/162435 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping --0-2133610757-1134430869=:39139--