From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-08-28T12:23:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4616] Re: Getting list of regexp matches

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:4614] Re: Getting list of regexp matches"
    on 00/08/28, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|Currently the default parameter is evaluated just once, so all entries 
|will default to having the same empty array.
|
|  h = Hash.new(Array.new)
|  h['cat'] << 'hello'
|  h['dog'] << 'goodbye'
|  puts h['cat'].inspect  #=> ["hello", "goodbye"]
|
|
|However, there's some talk of a new syntax:
|
| h = Hash.new { stuff }
|
|Where the block will be evaluated to create missing elements.

Or try

  h.fetch('cat'){ stuff }

if you're using 1.5.x or later.

							matz.