From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T08:52:59+09:00
Subject: pp and (my) sstruct

OK, I've narrowed the problem down a little further.

I have this sstruct class which is like Struct or OpenStruct but with
some other features.

If you're curious, see the rubyforge snippet:
http://rubyforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=25

The point here is, it doesn't quite work with pp for whatever reason.

Here's an example showing how an ordinary Struct prettyprints, and
then a so-called SuperStruct for comparison.

This problem is likely related to the nontrivial metaprogramming I'm
doing in sstruct.


Ideas, anyone??

Hal



   require 'pp'
   require 'sstruct'

   Struct.new("Bar",:a,:b,:c,:d,:e,:f,:g,:h,:i)

   y = Struct::Bar.new([1,2,3,4],"a string",
                       {"a"=>"hash","of"=>"some   kind."},
                       File, nil, [["an","array"],["of","arrays"]],
                       "blah", "blah", "blah")

   pp y

   ###

   Bam = SuperStruct.new(:a,:b,:c,:d,:e,:f,:g,:h,:i)

   z = Bam.new([1,2,3,4],"a string",{"a"=>"hash","of"=>"some kind."},
               File, nil, [["an","array"],["of","arrays"]],
               "blah", "blah", "blah")

   pp z

   #### Output:

   #<Struct::Bar
    a=[1, 2, 3, 4],
    b="a string",
    c={"of"=>"some kind.", "a"=>"hash"},
    d=File,
    e=nil,
    f=[["an", "array"], ["of", "arrays"]],
    g="blah",
    h="blah",
    i="blah">
    <Bam: a=1234 b=a string c=ofsome kind.ahash d=File e=
    f=anarrayofarrays g=blah h=blah i=blah>