From: Sean Hussey <seanhussey@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T01:14:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Spliting a line and passing the results

I guess I'd just rather not depend on the order of the fields in the
file always being the same.  If they change, I can change the
split(...), but I won't have to change new or update.  (I may want to,
but I won't have to based on file format.)

Does that make sense?  Or is that not a good enough reason?  I'm
looking for any advice people might have on style.

Thanks!

Sean

On 11/10/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10.11.2006 04:45, Sean Hussey wrote:
> > On 11/9/06, Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> KEYS = %w[ name id phone color temperature dog password ]
> >>
> >> data = line.chomp.split(...)
> >> hash = Hash[*(KEYS.zip(data))]
>
> I am not sure what you actually gain with this - unless of course your
> new and update methods would need to be rewritten to accept a Hash
> because all arguments are optional.
>
> Kind regards
>
>         robert
>
>