From: Louis J Scoras <louis.j.scoras@...>
Date: 2006-05-09T21:51:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Modifying Hash Default Value

On 5/9/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> This comes up here roughly every three days. So you're not alone if
> that comforts you. :-)

Heh.  Nope, I'm almost never comforted by other people's misfortunes,
which is partly why I posted this.

It was actually a pretty basic (read stupid) error on my part, but my
biggest blunder was actually /not reading the documentation/.  As soon
as I saw a block with two parameters associated with a hash, I
immediately assumed that it was iteration with key/value pairs, which
of course makes absolutely no sense in this context.  Had I read the
documentation for the hash constructor I would have seen that it
passes the entire hash with the failed key, at which point the
solution comes quite naturally as James pointed out above.