From: Harry Ohlsen Date: 2001-12-13T05:45:03+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:28366] Re: Reviews solicited for Ruby article In article , "Mike Stok" wrote: > You are wrong ... The (0) after the Hash.new is significant see > http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_hash.html#new. Here's an irb > transcript: Ah! I see. So, the 0 is the value given to any key that's not been initialised. Great. Thanks for the clarification. Harry O.