From: "Gennady F. Bystritsky" <gfb@...>
Date: 2002-12-05T09:14:39+09:00
Subject: Re: MultiMap

What if you use Hash instead of Array as a value of self[key]? Then, as keys
are unique by definition,  you could have something like:

(self[key] ||= Hash.new)[value] = true # or just nil

and later you reference it as

self[key].keys

Regards,
Gennady.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Williams" <bruce@codedbliss.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: MultiMap


On Wednesday 04 December 2002 05:15 pm, Bruce Williams wrote:
| self[key] << value unless (self[key] ||= []).include? value

PS:

You could also do:

((self[key] ||= []) << value).uniq!

... but that's probably less efficient and arguably more ugly-- though
shorter
(for educational purposes only)

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