I would personally love a more concise way to merge/reverse_merge hashes. Would you also propose Hash#& as merge? P.S. in your example, a reverse_merge should result in :b => 2 On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 1:57 AM, alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov) wrote: > > Issue #7739 has been reported by alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov). > > ---------------------------------------- > Feature #7739: Define Hash#| as Hash#reverse_merge in Rails > https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7739 > > Author: alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov) > Status: Open > Priority: Normal > Assignee: > Category: core > Target version: > > > =begin > I suggest for to define (({Hash#|})) as (({Hash#reverse_merge})) in ((*Rails*)), in my opinion this would correspond nicely to (({Set#|})), to the logical (({#||})) and to the bitwise (({#|})): > > { :a => 1, :b => 2 } | { :b => 1, :c => 2 } # => { :a => 1, :b => 1, :c => 2 } > =end > > > > -- > http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ > >