From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T21:53:31+09:00
Subject: Re: hierarchic data structure

henon <meinrad.recheis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is the usual idiom of nested hashes:
>
> sure there's no problem implementing it ... I guess it has been
> implemented a thousand times by a thousand different people. i am
> asking if anyone knows a library because it might feature iterators,
> clever error handling code, etc. and it might be tested better than
> yet annother quicky-hacky-implementation.
>
> are there any libraries or prominent applications known?
> thanks for response,

The basic idiom is so simple (two lines, see my last posting) that it 
doesn't make any sense to package that into a lib.  I don't know whether 
your requirements are met by anthing done already.  Did you check the RAA? 
That's usually a good starting point.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/

Kind regards

    robert