From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-01T05:03:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#to_h

Hi --

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Roger Pack wrote:

> Not that I would find it useful at all, but is there is a Hash#to_a
> should there not be an Array#to_h?

Not if it's not useful :-) It might be, though. It's been talked about
a lot over the years. As I recall, part of the problem is the question
of what it would mean; for example, given this:

   ["a","b","c","d"].to_h

is it

   ["a" => "b", "c" => "d"]

or

   [0 => "a", 1 => "b", ....]

?


David

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