From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T15:43:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash#+ ?

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:42 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: Hash#+ ?"
> >
> >     on 03/01/23, Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:
> > |> So you guys are OK for value losing "or" or "|" methods?
> > |
> > |yes. a number of times in my experience a non in-place version of update
> > | would have been handy.
> >
> > Handiness is not my point.  I know it must be handy.
> > I care about names.
> >
> > 							matz.
>
> "yes."

i second that.  the 'normal' semantics of '|' are preserved, IMHO, iff the
first hash wins

-a

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