From: Austin Ziegler <Austin.Ziegler@...>
Date: 2004-06-07T23:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

Sean O'Dell [mailto:sean@celsoft.com]:
> On Sunday 06 June 2004 05:38, Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:
>> Hm, just an idea, but perhaps is tagging not such an ugly
>> solution? You could create a dummy module Hashlike, include it in
>> your hashlike classes, and test with obj.is_a? Hashlike or
>> obj.is_a? Hash
> It's a decent solution, I think. My only complaint is that I have
> to hack it in, instead of the solution being something Ruby does
> automatically for all classes.

Then perhaps the way that you're looking at the solution isn't
sufficiently "Ruby."

-austin
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