From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-08-21T01:21:19+09:00
Subject: object pattern matching


i've been toying with an idea lately and thinking about how one would crawl an
object graph to determine if it matched a specifc object.  for instance


   array_of_hashes = [ {}, {} ]

   specific_array_of_hashes = [ {'key' => 'value}, {:k => :v} ]
   specific_array_of_hashes_2 = [ {:k => :v} ]

   specific_array_of_hashes.is_shaped_like? array_of_hashes #=> true

so, something like pattern matching in ml languages.  any concepts on how to
do that in ruby for arbitrary objects?

cheers.

-a
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