From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-10-09T18:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Filling a hash from an enumerable

From: Pete Hodgson [mailto:phodgson@lyris.com] 
# Peña, Botp wrote:
# >> people_array.group_by{ |p| p.name }
# > => {"bob"=>[#<struct Person name="bob", age=12, 
# city="SFO">], "dave"=>[#<struct Person name="dave", age=14, 
# city="NYC">], "jane"=>[#<struct Person name="jane", age=6, 
# city="LDN">]}
# >   
# Thanks, but that's not quite what I wanted. It creates a hash whose 
# values are lonely arrays,...

lonely indeed, but consider the case when you have dup names

kind regards -botp