From: Jason Creighton Date: 2003-07-22T02:04:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:43:46 +0900 Brian Candler wrote: > A minor quibble comes out of this: why doesn't String.new with no arguments > just return an empty string? In 1.6.8 it gives an ArgumentError exception. ~$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-23) [i686-linux] ~$ irb >> String.new => "" Jason Creighton