From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-12-06T00:47:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Dumb question to which I ought to know the answer by now

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:32:51PM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Once I'd proposed similar;
> 
>   hash[*keys] = *values
> 

That would be handy, but I don't think it's possible to define such
a method in current Ruby.  The parameters to []= are flattened;
you wouldn't be able to tell where the keys stopped and the values
started, unless you assumed that keys.length == values.length, which
is not always a valid assumption where I've seen the Perl idiom used.

-Mark