[#4567] Re: What's the biggest Ruby development? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Dave said:

18 messages 2000/08/23
[#4568] Q's on Marshal — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/23

[#4580] RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/25

[#4584] Re: RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/08/25

Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

[#4623] Re: RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/28

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#4652] Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

24 messages 2000/08/30
[#4653] Re: Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/08/30

Hi,

[#4657] Ruby tutorials for newbie — Kevin Liang <kevin@...> 2000/08/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:04327] Re: TABWTDI and Hash.new([])

From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-08-07 12:30:43 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4327
On 28 Jul 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

Having been away for a week...

> matz@netlab.co.jp (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
> 
> > I'm thinking of another way:
> > 
> >      Hash.new{[]}
> > 
> > This means if the key is not found in the hash, evaluate given block
> > and returns its value as default.  In this example, the block creates
> > new array for each execution.
> 
> That's far more general - I like this a lot.
> 
> 
I agree with those sentiments as well.  I wonder if this would be worth
extending more gnerally, so user-created classes can use it?

	Thank you,
	Hugh
	hgs@dmu.ac.uk



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