Ruby’s Hash#default=

by john on July 21, 2011

If Ruby’s Hash#default= returned the Hash instead of the default object, you could write:

TRANSLATION = { 'hello' => 'bonjour' }.default=('unknown')

Eric

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How about something like this:

TRANSLATION = { ‘hello’ => ‘bonjour’ }.with_default(‘unknown’)

https://gist.github.com/1125319