From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-06-08T00:51:10+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 1:39:10 AM, Robert wrote:


> "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:1482033218333.20040608004534@soyabean.com.au...
>> On Monday, June 7, 2004, 11:27:41 PM, David wrote:
>>
>> > I think what we may be running into is the possibility that
>> > "ducktyping a Hash" is in a sense a contradiction in terms.
>>
>> Let me just say that Sean, despite his protestations, doesn't really
>> want to check that something is "hash-like".  He wants to check that
>> something is "map-like".  Forget fetch, store, [], etc.  A map has two
>> essential properties: "keys" and "values".  OK, we can all go home now
>> :)

> Well, you can even view an Array as map like: keys are integers and values
> whatever you like.

Yeah, but that's a crappy kind of map :)  That's more like an array :\

Gavin