Hi --

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, James Britt wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, David A. Black wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi --
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jeff Wood wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I would do
>>>> 
>>>> a = Hash.new { || [] }
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I believe that's the first empty || I've ever seen.  It's awfully
>>> confusing (my first reaction was: *what* or an empty array? :-)  I'd
>>> strongly encourage you to eschew that construct.  It's deservedly
>>> unheard of :-)
>> 
>> 
>> i must confess i love it!  probably won't use it much.  but i love it.
>
> I love it too, and will use it simply because David said he'd never seen it 
> before.

But now I've seen it, so you don't have to :-)


David

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