From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T20:24:03+09:00
Subject: Re: OpenStruct and #send


"Hal Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:417F74A9.7080705@hypermetrics.com...
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> > "Hal Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:417F6F00.6000307@hypermetrics.com...
> >
> >>Robert Klemme wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>This looks like an IRB anomaly:
> >>
> >>Not purely an irb anomaly, as it happens in a script
> >>without irb.
> >
> >
> > This is interesting.  I could not reproduce it.  Under which
circumstances
> > does it surface?
>
> Try this script:
>
>    require 'ostruct'
>
>    def foo
>      puts "I'm a method"
>    end
>
>    x = OpenStruct.new
>    x.bar = 5
>    x.foo = 6
>    puts x.send("bar")
>    puts x.send("foo")
>
>
> Rather than printing 5 and 6, for me it prints:
>
>    5
>    I'm a method
>    nil
>
>
> Does it behave differently for you?

No.  And now I see the difference: I was so fixated on checking the
instance method that I didn't notice the different behavior of #foo and
#send(:foo).  Darn!  Thx for your patience!

Kind regard

    robert