From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2010-01-26T12:22:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Nested hash with arrays for default value


On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Glen Holcomb wrote:
> 2010/1/25 Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>
>> The problem is that he wants the leaves of the hash to be arrays, and
>> not hashes.
>> 
> Exactly, infinite depth would be nice as it would make a more temporally
> portable solution.  The proxy looks to be working great.  I am a bit
> confused as to why the << method in the proxy doesn't overwrite a leaf with
> a new array though.  I'm not complaining as it works the way I want it to,
> I'm just perplexed.

Oops.  Sorry for the confusion.  The trick with the proxy is that the
first time << is called on the proxy, it replaces itself with an empty
array.  Further lookups will return the array and not the original proxy.

Gary Wright