From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-29T18:55:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash question

On Sunday, December 29, 2002, 8:49:19 PM, Gavin wrote:

> Since you have a lot of keys and defaults, a nice approach is to put
> all the default values into a separate hash, then do something like
> this:

>   final_hash = given_hash.dup.update(defaults_hash)


Sorry, that should be:

  final = defaults.dup.update(given)

See KeywordArguments on the Wiki for some somewhat related code.

Cheers,
Gavin