From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-04-26T17:44:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Array to Hash


"Mark Hubbart" <discord@mac.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:4DF38309-95D3-11D8-9D1D-000502FDD5CC@mac.com...
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> On Apr 24, 2004, at 2:24 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
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> > So the question is wich representation Enumerable#to_h should expect -
> > nested or sequence?
>
> It seems to me that it should be the one that Hash#to_a generates:
> nested pairs. They're already almost a hash anyway; Array has a few
> methods for that "format" that allow you to lookup items as if it were
> a hash. Why not be able to convert to and from? Makes sense to me.

If it is a Hash then why don't you have the data in a hash in the first
place?  I mean, the data should not reside in an array if they are to be
used hash-like.

Dunno whether this kind of conversion occurs often.  I for my part didn't
need that till today.  Just my 0.02...

    robert