From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2007-02-20T22:41:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#uniq - Comparison doesn't use 'eql?' and 'hash'

A lot of often used add-on classes use the class method [], for example Set:
Set[4, 3] == Set.new(4,3)

Also, you could do
[4, 3].to_set

Dan

Wolfgang N叩dasi-Donner wrote:
> Kalman Noel schrieb:
>> Although you already have the answer on dclr, for this list's archives:
>> Strings are handled in a special way, as shown here:...
> 
> Then another question came up.
> 
> There is one good reason to use class "String" in ad-hoc-tools, instead 
> of a new class, that uses class "String": The constants.
> 
> If I write write
> 
> a = "this is a string"
> 
> an object of class "String" will be created. If I have my wrapper class 
> "MyString" which uses class "String", I must use some construct like
> 
> a = MyString.new("this is my string")
> 
> Is there some possibility to shorten this?
> 
> Wolfgang N叩dasi-Donner
> 
>