From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-12-06T03:12:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Dumb question to which I ought to know the answer by now

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:10:42AM +0900, David A. Black wrote:
>   hash[]=(1,2,3,4,5,6)
> 
> doesn't fit the two-arg format, and has no unambiguous dividing
> line (unless you decide that the key and value lists have to be of the
> same length, which I actually think would be reasonable, though as
> Mark says not identical to the Perl idiom [which I don't mind :-) ]).

I certainly don't mind diverging from Perl; there's a reason I
swtiched from Perl to Ruby for my daily scripting tasks, after
all. :)  But it is occasionaly convenient to be able to use a longer
key array (which sets the unmatched keys to undef/nil) or a longer
value array (in which case unmatched values are ignored).

-Mark