From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-15T03:01:10+09:00
Subject: Re: hash.keys and hash.values

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:06:51AM +0900, Mage wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> >I suspect people don't even get as far as taking it for granted, since
> >they probably tend to access one from the other in almost all cases.
> >  
> On the second week of my Ruby "experience" I found myself writing a 
> method (for a very basic db layer) where hash.keys and hash.values could 
> come in play.
> So I think it's a natural need. After a short Google session I found 
> others dealing with this, most of them assumed that they have same order.

I stand corrected.


> 
> Based on the answers of this thread I believe they are, however until it 
> becomes documented I will use hash.to_a.transpose in production environment.

That's probably an excellent policy.

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