From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-02-05T11:20:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby Do This?

Mr Bubb wrote:
> In Perl, you can create a hash of arbitrary depth like so:
> 
> $hash->{foo}->{bar}->{baz} = 123;
> 
> I've tried this in ruby:
> 
> hash[:foo][:bar][:baz] = 123
> 
> but I get nil.= errors
> 
> I could of course do a check for null at each level, but oy, that's so
> cumbersome. Is there a ruby way?

Sure, but there's probably also a better way that doesn't involve so 
much Hash nesting.  Can you explain what you're using this for?

> 
> Thanks!

Best,
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