From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T08:30:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a library/mechanism for an object/hash hybrid?

On 3/30/07, dtrusty@my-deja.com <dtrusty@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are times when I want to store items in a hash, and yet refer
> the items
> using class/object method syntax.
>
> For example, I may want to do this:
>    myhash['aaa']  = 'bbb'
> and then be able to refer to the 'aaa' element either as
>   myhash['aaa']
>  --or--
>   myhash.aaa
>
> I started writing my own class to do this, but I wanted to check to
> see if anyone had
> already done so.

I just read about this in a blog yesterday:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/camping_hashwithreallyindiffer.html

The camping framework has a HashWithIndifferentAccess which does this.

Not to be confused with the class HashWithIndifferentAccess in Rails
(actually in ActiveSupport)

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