From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-06-03T08:25:41+09:00
Subject: Re: An alternative to the class Foo < Struct.new(vars) idiom and SuperStruct

Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> Hal Fulton wrote:
> 
>> That's another example of why I would like a data structure
>> that  1) had a convenient notation for literals and 2) was
>> "like" a Hash, but ordered.
> 
> 
> Wow, it would be great if we then could use #to_hash to determine 
> whether an object is a hash, and then not require that the return value 
> of that method be an instance of Hash. Then we could create an ordered 
> hash from scratch, and use it all the places we currently use a hash.
> 
> Wait...

What is your point? Please elaborate...

Hal