From: "Rene van Bevern (RvB)" <rvb@...>
Date: 2004-06-13T02:43:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

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Sean O'Dell wrote:
> On Saturday 12 June 2004 04:23, Rene van Bevern wrote:
>> Use the method #to_hash instead. All hash-like objects should be able to
>> give a hash-representation of themselves.
>
> Not necessarily.  A database abstraction might act like a hash, but wouldn't 
> dump entire tables, which could contain tens of thousands of records, as one 
> big Ruby hash.  That isn't positive identification.

Okay, you are right. PStore is the first example that comes to my mind:
It can act like a hash but doesn't have #to_hash. :/

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