From: Day Date: 2008-02-14T06:13:12+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby wish-list On Feb 13, 2008 2:32 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote: > so (whatever Hash#- does) it involves making a copy of the hash and > changing that instead, whereas #delete is destructive. Which means if you use #- you're creating a new object and #delete does not, right? It may not be much of a drain, but you want to cut back on object creation when it's obviously superfluous, right? Ben