From: David Alan Black Date: 2000-12-16T21:03:57+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7426] Re: Ruby performance question On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Joseph McDonald wrote: > > I take it back (again). it does not appear that an array > is automatically converted into a hash. sorry for talking > to myself in front of you all :-0 The argument to Hash.new becomes the default value for non-existent keys (like Hash#default=). Meanwhile, we (and I use the word loosely, since none of my code is left :-) seem to have optimized this thing within an inch of its life. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav