From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-01-29T12:29:54+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm... confused

Michael you are using hash syntax. Hence the  =>.  If you supply => Ruby
will treat your array as a hash. If you swap those to a , then you will get
what you were expecting.

Zach

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael campbell [mailto:michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:21 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: I'm... confused


Given:

x = {
  :a => "foo",
  :b => [ :c => "c", :d => "d" ]
}

p x


I get as output:

{:a=>"foo", :b=>[{:c=>"c", :d=>"d"}]}

Which is what I *WANTED*, but not what I expected.

Specifically, the value pointed to by the :b key of x.  Does ruby
automatically coerce  "x => y, ..." forms into: "{ x => y, ...}" ?

I more or less expected it to be {:a=>"foo", :b=>[:c, "c", :d, "d"]}, but
maybe that's my perl background showing.