From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-01T18:36:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29941] Re: Ruby multi-dimensional Hash question?---Any one out there willing to give this questions a try?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:29937] Re: Ruby multi-dimensional Hash question?---Any one out there willing to give this questions a try?"
    on 02/01/01, Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org> writes:

|> You've got [ruby-talk:29787].  Alternative solution is fetch Ruby
|> 1.7.2 and  do
|> 
|>   MyHash = Hash.new{Hash.new}

|I think it is not solution because the assignment doesn't modify MyHash.

Hmm, things are not that easy, sigh.

How about

  MyHash = Hash.new
  def MyHash.default(key)
    self[key] = Hash.new
  end

using 1.7.2

  MyHash[0][1] = 2
  p MyHash[0][1]        # => 2

							matz.