From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T18:09:57+09:00
Subject: Re: select and select


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Lyman" <rich@lithinos.com>


> I really like the feel of 'pick' with arrays.
>
> What about a 'pick_as' option for the hash?
>
> It would be nice though - with hashes - to say whether or not I'm 'picking'
> responses based on the key or the value...
>

Hashes and arrays map keys to values.  The method we are looking for returns
several values based on several keys.

Finding the keys that map to a set of values is out of scope for this method, I
feel.

Gavin