From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2003-12-05T23:45:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Dumb question to which I ought to know the answer by now

Hi --

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:03:07PM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > What you can do is:
> > 
> > 	hash = nil; keys.zip(value) { |k, v| (hash ||= {})[k] = v }
> 
> Now that is handy.  I assume there's a historical reason for the
> name 'zip'?  Because I would never have thought it meant 
> "iterate in parallel with". :)

It's more that the result is 'zipped', as the teeth of a zipper become
interleaved when the zipper is zipped (one from the right, one from the
left, one from the right...).


David

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David A. Black
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