From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-06-30T07:16:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] arrayfields-3.0.0

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>   if tuple[17] =~ pat or tuple[9].to_i < 42
>     ...
>   end
...
>   if tuple['name'] =~ pat or tuple['age'].to_i < 42
>     ...
>   end

Is there any reason you didn't just use either constants or variables like:

if tuple[NAME] =~ pat or tuple[AGE].to_i < 42
   ...
end

or if your indices weren't constant, set them from a DB query and then do:

if tuple[name] =~ pat or tuple[age].to_i < 42
   ...
end

arrayfields looks great, and makes things much easier, but it just seems 
odd to me that you'd approach it the way you did.

Ben