From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-07T21:56:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#to_h

Hi --

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Tom Link wrote:

>> Yes, if that's the semantics you want. If you're inclined toward
>> thinking it should use the array indices as hash keys and the array
>> values as hash values, then that implementation wouldn't work.
>
> With that constructor at hand, it wouldn't be too difficult to get
> that behaviour though:
>
> a = [[1,2],[3,4]]
>> Hash[(0..(a.size - 1)).zip(a)]
> => {0=>[1, 2], 1=>[3, 4]}

None of this is hard to do without Array#to_h, but there's still the
question of what Array#to_h would do if it existed.


David

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