From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-04-23T05:39:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashes

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:12 PM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:

>
>  It's never exactly closed, in that sense. Hash keys are unique, so if
>  you key a new value, you lose the old value, even if it's not at the
>  time that the hash is created.

I guess I kind of knew that, but I was a tiny bit surprised this
happened in the Hash creation without throwing something like a "key
exists" exception.  It doesn't bother me.  In fact, I think I can make
some use of it.

Todd