From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-12-06T01:01:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Dumb question to which I ought to know the answer by now

Mark J. Reed wrote:

> 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.


I think in Nobu's code, keys and values are separate arrays, so there
is no need to know where keys stop and values begin.  Or have I
misread?


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