From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-03-30T16:49:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Surprise with Hash#new

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:28:40 +0000, Luis D Casillas wrote:
> Today I spent 15 mins baffled by very weird behavior with a Hash, and I
> just figured out where I went wrong.  (I'm using ruby 1.8.1.)
> 
> So, I wanted to create a dictionary of stacks, which in Ruby comes out
> as being a Hash of Arrays.  I wanted to be able to write code like this
>

here is some info about default values for Array/Hash:
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~billtj/ruby.html#default

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?HashOfHashes


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Simon Strandgaard