From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...>
Date: 2001-01-10T14:11:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8982] Re: bug??

Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
> matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
> 
> > |I agree. But should we have way to change the hash default initializer?
> > 
> > Not really.  Hash default value (single object given to `Hash::new')
> > and hash fallback (block given to `Hash::new') are two similar yet
> > different beasts.  And code portion by block may not be replaceable
> > later in many other cases.
> 
> Except we could have the best of both worlds: if the default value was 
> a proc, then it could be called to supply the value to use.

Or something like [ruby-talk:5962]?

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