From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T21:46:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/DL union! method syntax

Takaaki Tateishi wrote:

> You should pass a signature and labels like struct!.
>
> theUnion.union!('LH', :long, :short)
> theUnion[:long] = 2**16
> p theUnion[:long]    # => 65536
> p theUnion[:short]   # => 0

Oh I see. Thanks for the reply. I thought that a union was defined as
multiple structs brought together in a modular fashion. So I was trying
to invoke the union! method with struct! members as parameters. I will
try it the way you have outlined it. Thanks again!
 


Thanks