From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-20T00:31:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation

Hi,

In message "Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation"
    on 03/07/19, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

|If Ruby had Array#to_h, then I could rewrite it as:
|
|    # return { filename -> size }
|  def get_local_gz_files
|    Dir["*.gz"].map { |filename|
|      [ filename, File.stat(filename).size ]
|    }.to_h
|  end

It has been proposed several times.  The issues are

  * whether the name "to_h" is a good name or not.  somebody came up
    with the name "hashify".  I'm not excited by both names.

  * what if the original array is not an assoc array (array of arrays
    of two elements).  raise error? ignore?

							matz.