From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T17:48:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating hashes with duplicate keys

On 28/07/06, Sy Ali <sy1234@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to simplify this hash creation:
> g = { 1 => "test", 2 => "test", }
>
> I have a particularly complicated hash that I'm generating.  It can
> have very large values.
>
> Right now, I duplicate values with something like this:
>
> c = { 1 => "one", }
> d = { 2 => c[1], }
> c.merge!(d)
>
> however, I don't like the way my code looks.. I want to be able to
> specify the duplication within the hash generation.
>
> Is this possible?

Something like this?
irb(main):001:0> c={}
=> {}
irb(main):002:0> c[1] = "one"
=> "one"
irb(main):003:0> c[2] = c[1]
=> "one"
irb(main):004:0> c[1].object_id == c[2].object_id
=> true

Farrel