From: "Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T07:59:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing a hash of args

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:55:42AM +0900, Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> Is there a way to pass each item is a hash as a successive argument to a
> function?
> 
> ie:
> 
> time = {
>   :year => 2003
>   :month => 03
>   :day => 24
> }
> Time.local(time)
> 
> (that wouldn't work but you get the idea)

Hashes aren't ordered. Otherwise you could just do Time.local(*time.values).

Time.local(*[:year, :month, :day].map {|key| time[key]}) is DRYer but more
typing than Time.local(time[:year], time[:month], time[:day])

I look forward to someone else coming up with something clever.

marcel
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Marcel Molina Jr. <marcel@vernix.org>