From: "John W. Long" <ng@...>
Date: 2004-06-06T12:59:47+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

Duck typing may not be the best thing for you. =) Sorry. Didn't mean to 
start another thread war on this.
--
John

Sean O'Dell wrote:

>Which always sounded fine to me until I was actually exposed to this kind of 
>"typing."  The problem is, the methods [] and []= are there, they just don't 
>do what I need them to do.  Duck typing completely and utterly don't help, 
>and Ruby has no way to tell me when an object's [] and []= are hash-like or 
>something else.  My solution is going to end being something like "tagging 
>all objects that I know in advance to be hash-like, and then looking for that 
>tag at that particular point in my code."  That's a kludge to me.
>
>	Sean O'Dell
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>