From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T08:34:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeking the Ruby way

Jacob Fugal wrote:

>   sum = Hash::new{|h,k| h[k] = 0}

And for some reason, I tend to write

sum = Hash.new(0)

when dealing with an immediate value. (But maybe it's a better practice
to use Ara's form, so that if you ever replace 0 with, say, a matrix,
you don't reuse the same object for each key in the hash.)

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