Adam Shelly wrote: > > It seems sensible to me, although I'd use a hash instead of a > associative array - it just looks cleaner. I didn't check the > performance difference though. > I thought about a hash first, but for some reason shied away from a hash where the keys could be any object, including nil. There's no reason to be afraid of that though, is there? I think a hash would probably be faster. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.