Re: [ ruby-Bugs-4457 ] Strange interactions between Struct and 'pp'

Eric Hodel wrote:

>> The reason is that the pp-library uses the members method of the 
>> created structure to enumerate the members. The problem is easy to fix 
>> by using the members method on the class instead. The documentation 
>> for Struct suggest that you should use members in the said way 
>> however, and it's not clear (to me) that Struct.new(:members) 
>> overrides this.
> class Struct
>    def pretty_print(q)
>      q.group(1, '#<struct ' + self.class.name, '>') {
> -      q.seplist(self.members, lambda { q.text "," }) {|member|
> +      q.seplist(self.class.members, lambda { q.text "," }) {|member|

irb(main):001:0> Struct.new(:class).new.class
=> nil

The right way to fix it is by using 
Object.instance_method(:class).bind(self).call.members IMHO.

But it's probably quite a rare case anyway... :)

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