From: vladare@... (Vlad)
Date: 2004-06-07T23:33:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

"Sean O'Dell" <sean@celsoft.com> wrote in message news:<200406041915.32644.sean@celsoft.com>...
> In both cases, does that mean that the object has hash-like functionality, or 
> just that the object responds to those two methods?  Is there some definition 
> somewhere that says "it's a hash if it has these methods?"  I actually have 
> hash-like objects that DON'T respond to either of those two methods, but it 
> would be easy enough to add fake ones.  I hate adding fake methods just to id 
> a hash interface, it's a kludge.
> 
> 	Sean O'Dell

Guess, you will be happy if Ruby can do some like ...

obj.respond_to?(Hash::[])
or
obj.respond_to?(Foo::[])

Isn't it ?

Vladare