From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-01-11T14:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Stupid question from a Ruby newb


On Jan 10, 2006, at 11:42 PM, David Vallner wrote:

> If you like Ever So Cool one-liners, this one might also work:
>
>    myHash = objects.inject({}){|hash, item| hash[item.key] =
>    item.value; hash}
>
> It does pretty much completely the same, except were this  
> Smalltalk, the block wouldn't be a closure and therefore a horse's  
> butthair more memory-efficient solution.
>

Is this because the Smalltalk compiler will notice that there are no
references to variables outside the block and Ruby's current  
implementation
will not notice the same thing?


Gary Wright