On 22-Feb-06, at 9:38 PM, Peñá, Botp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there a setting to set nil to zero? something like $NIL=0, then  
> set it back again to $NIL=nil...
>
> reason is i have quite a number of codes like ff
>
> s.each do |w|
>   f[w] = 0 unless f[w] #i want to kill this lne since it does not  
> jive with my pseudocode
>   f[w] += 1
> end
>
> thanks and kind regards -botp

If I'm doing that with a hash then I use 0 as a default value e.g.

michael-stoks-powerbook-g4-17:~ mike$ irb
irb(main):001:0> f = Hash.new(0)
=> {}
irb(main):002:0> f[7] += 1
=> 1
irb(main):003:0> f
=> {7=>1}

but I assume that you are after something more subtle...

Michael

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