From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-10-24T17:34:28+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax quickie

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>Selon Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@it.fts-vn.com>:
>
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>What exactly does the following do and how can I test it?  It looks like
>>its creating a new value with the key name, but how do you call it?
>>
>>def [](name)
>>    @val[name]
>>end
>>
>>Any help appreciated
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Just call it using array notation: foo[name]. Array notation is just syntactic
>sugar for the method [](argument), i.e. foo[name] is the same as foo.[](name).
>
>So basically you have here an object that contains a hash as an instance
>variable (named @val, not the clearest name ever chosen ;) ), and allows you to
>directly read the values in that hash using array notation, as if the object was
>a hash itself.
>--
>Christophe Grandsire.
>  
>
Thanks, so I had actually accessed it by accident anyway :).

Kev