From: Adam Prescott Date: 2012-01-17T01:04:10+09:00 Subject: Re: uniq with count; better way? --f46d04447ff355ef9404b6a75d3d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 16:00, Sigurd wrote: > [4,5,6,4,5,6,6,7].inject(Hash.new(0)) {|res, x| res[x] += 1; res } > I think this is a misuse of inject, personally, every time I see it. It's harder to read and it doesn't give the feeling of actually "reducing" (inject's alias) the array down to one thing. The required `; res` is a sign of that. Compare: [1, 2, 3, 4].inject(5) { |a, b| a + b } --f46d04447ff355ef9404b6a75d3d--