From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-08-05T14:50:33+09:00
Subject: Re: What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0?

Hi,

In message "Re: What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0?"
    on 03/08/05, Ben Giddings <ben@thingmagic.com> writes:

|Looking at the page, I also have another question concerning 
|Hash.merge.  It does essentially the same thing is the set-union for 
|Arrays, right (Array#|)?  Would anybody besides me like to see Hash#| 
|become an alias for Hash#merge?  To me it would be more obvious that 
|{'key' => 'val'} | {'otherkey' => 'otherval'} returns a new hash and 
|doesn't modify the original one.

The | operator is not suitable for the cases like

  {"key" => "val1"} | {"key" => "val2}

That's the reason I chose "merge" for the name of the method.

							matz.