From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-08T01:51:41+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

On Monday 07 June 2004 07:40, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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."

Or perhaps it's very Ruby and you don't realize it.

	Sean O'Dell