From: voipfc@...
Date: 2006-10-02T07:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's equivalent of PHP explode


Marc Heiler wrote:
> "Does it simply my_hash as an associative array?"
> Hi
> I think its better to call arrays arrays, and hashes hashes in Ruby.
>

Isn't a ruby hash the same what some other languages call an
associative array?

> I guess php simplifies this a bit too much for my taste,
> with array() uniting both arrays and hashes.
>
> Hash.new is the same as {} in ruby, although the second is a
> tiny bit faster as far as I know.
>
> nil means that something doesnt really exist, even an empty
> '' string is not nil
> 
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