From: Trans Date: 2006-10-19T12:00:12+09:00 Subject: Re: My first feeling of Ruby Hal Fulton wrote: > Conflict with block syntax. You can't say hash {"A"} meaningfully. > In fact, I'm not certain why that returns an integer. Huh? You must know. It's the #hash method: irb(main):001:0> o = Object.new => # irb(main):002:0> o.hash => -605540054 irb(main):003:0> o.hash { } => -605540054