From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-06-08T01:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 1:58:44 AM, Robert wrote:

>> > 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 :)

> It depends on how much abstraction you throw in. :-)  RAM can be viewed as
> this kind of mapping, too...

>> That's more like an array :\

> How did you know?  You didn't to #kind_of? Array, did you?  :-)

  >> a = [1,2,3,4]
  => [1, 2, 3, 4]
  >> def a.kind_of?(klass) true end
  => nil
  >> a.kind_of? Hash
  => true

Hey, I think you're onto something.

  >> a.kind_of? Errno::ENOENT
  => true

Now that's just being silly.

Gavin