From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-03-02T06:36:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash.from_zipped_array

dblack@wobblini.net writes:

> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>
>> it's pretty dang easy to do already:
>>
>>    harp:~ > cat a.rb
>>    animal, sound = %w[dog cat bird], %w[woof meow cheep]
>>    require 'yaml' and y Hash[*animal.zip(sound).flatten]
>>
>>
>>    harp:~ > ruby a.rb
>>    ---
>>    cat: meow
>>    bird: cheep
>>    dog: woof
>
> A good opportunity for my annual plug for the flattenx extension :-)
> (On RAA, still, I think.)  It lets you flatten by any number of
> levels, so that you can use that technique even with nested arrays.

Try to get that into 2.0, at least flatten_once. *please*.

> David
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