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Written by Daniel Barlow on 2025-01-20 at 15:43

Status: writing ruby and wishing its Hashes worked like Lua's tables. Nothing good can come of this.

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Written by samueldr on 2025-01-20 at 18:48

@dan what do you mean by "work[ing] like Lua's tables" here?

(I know Lua and Ruby quite well, and I'm interested in seeing what crimes features can be involved here... Also not doubting you that yes, indeed, those languages work differently :))

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Written by Daniel Barlow on 2025-01-20 at 18:57

@samueldr basically I wanted the equivalent of clojure's update-in but for it to work on Arrays as well as Hashes. Hash#dig almost does (e.g. foo.dig(:uk, :london, :e, 17, 8)) but sadly only for reads not updates, and Hash#merge has no Array equivalent

I wrote a bog-standard recursive thingy in the end and it was probably the better approach :-)

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