From: Farhad Farzaneh <ff@...>
Date: 2007-07-04T16:46:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Isn't hash default value behavior just a little bizarre?

Pe単a, Botp wrote:

> 
> ruby allows one to change the default value. that is good, imho.
> i think the surprise stems fr the fact that it is _too simple to change 
> the default. hey, it's ruby ;)
> 
> kind regards -botp

You're right.  Somehow I missed that in the documentation.... did RTFM, 
but obviously not carefully enough.

Still, I do find it pretty surprising.  I got stung when I was actually 
using the feature to initialize any entry to an array just to avoid the 
business of

hash[key] ||= []

Lesson learned.

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