From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-01-24T03:36:47+09:00
Subject: turning a hash into an array

While reading the archives, I found out about this cool "idiom":

  hash = Hash[*ary]

which will turn [1,2,3,4] into {1=>2, 3=>4}. Is there anything similar 
to do the opposite (i.e., turn {1=>2, 3=>4} into [1,2,3,4] or 
[3,4,1,2])? I can only come up with this:

  ary = Hash.to_a.flatten

-- 
dave