From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-02-23T11:51:23+09:00
Subject: Re: setting nil to zero

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, [iso-8859-1] Pe�a, Botp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there a setting to set nil to zero? something like $NIL=0, then set it back again to $NIL=nil...
>
> reason is i have quite a number of codes like ff
>
> s.each do |w|
>  f[w] = 0 unless f[w] #i want to kill this lne since it does not jive with my pseudocode
>  f[w] += 1
> end
>
> thanks and kind regards -botp

why not

   f = Hash::new{|h,k| h[k] = 0}
   s.each{|w| f[w] += 1}

??

-a

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