From: Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T21:14:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash#select returns an array but Hash#reject returns a hash...

>
> that will change in newer version of ruby, eg ruby1.9
>
> irb(main):015:0> RUBY_VERSION
> => "1.9.0"
> irb(main):016:0> a=Hash.new
> => {}
> irb(main):017:0> a[1]=2
> => 2
> irb(main):018:0> a[2]=2
> => 2
> irb(main):019:0> a[3]=4
> => 4
> irb(main):020:0> a.select { |key,value| value > 2 }
> => {3=>4}
> irb(main):021:0> a.reject { |key,value| value <= 2 }
> => {3=>4}
>
> kind regards -botp
>
>

Thanks.

So this is just some sort of artefact/legacy code that never got changed?

Jayanth