From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T22:55:53+09:00
Subject: Re: What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0?

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 01:50  AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

Hi Matz,

Thanks for the clarification.  I hadn't thought of which hash "wins" 
when both contain a key.  Using "merge" does make it more clear.

Ben