From: MikkelFJ Date: 2002-12-23T02:59:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Hash#update "YANAGAWA Kazuhisa" wrote in message news:20021222164523.DA84B1EE12@milestones.dm4lab.to... > That's exactly the problem: That causes h1+h2 and h2+h1 yield > different hashes. Is this enough reasonable meaning? OK, String#+ > has also such meaning, however it is concatenation and both operands > are fully preserved in a result. What about using the '^' operator? In other languages it is also used for string concatenation. Mikkel