From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T08:13:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#to_hash



On Feb 11, 10:26 am, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Array#to_hash"
>     on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:19:10 +0900, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |Would any problems arise from extending Array with this?
>
> Nothing I can think of, except that I have never wanted such
> conversion from array to hash in my 16 year Ruby programming. ;-)

True enough. And maybe there never will be. There are many words in
the dictionary I never use too. Still, they have definitions, and if
one were to define Array#to_hash, that would seem like the clear
meaning. (I use #to_h for the more useful conversions).

Thanks,
T.