From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-02-03T18:31:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash#+ ?

On Sunday 02 February 2003 11:25 pm, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> At Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:38:01 +0900,
>
> Tom Sawyer wrote:
> > > So you guys are OK for value losing "or" or "|" methods?
> > >
> > > 							matz.
> >
> > yes. a number of times in my experience a non in-place version of update
> > would have been handy.
>
> What's wrong with 'hash3 = hash1.dup.update(hash2)' ?  And I'd like to
> know how a non in-place version of update is used that frequently.
> Would you show us some (live) examples?

well, i don't have any LIVE examples b/c hash#| dosen't exist, now does it! 
:-) but i will give you some places i could have used it as i come across 
them. sorry, i don't have time to go dig them up right now.

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tom sawyer, aka transami
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