Trans wrote:
> Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
>> nobu / ruby-lang.org wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> At Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:05:08 +0900,
>>> Daniel Schierbeck wrote in [ruby-talk:208833]:
>>>> Probably somewhat slower, but hey, it lets you do this
>>>>
>>>>    a, b, c = hsh.delete :a, :b, :c
>>> What will be returned from `hsh.delete :a'?
>> The value of :a
>>
>>    hsh = {:a => 1, :b => 2, :c => 3}
>>    hsh.delete :a, :b  #=> [1, 2]
>>    hsh.delete :c      #=> 3
>>
>> that way, you can do this
>>
>>    a    = hsh.delete :a
>>    b, c = hsh.delete :b, :c
>>
>> Cool, right?
> 
> Ah,  Nobu has a good point. It's beeter to have same kind of output. He
> also jogs my memory. Array has #delete_values_at and that's what we
> need for Hash too.
> 
>  def delete_values_at(*keys, &block)
>     keys.map{|key| delete(key, &block) }
>   end
> 
> Kind of long name though, maybe #delete_at would suffice?

Read my mind... yes, I think there should be added a #delete_at method 
in addition to the new #delete.


Cheers,
Daniel