From: Wes Nakamura <wknaka@...>
Date: 2000-05-02T02:26:56-07:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02613] Structs and dictionary keys


Hi,

What's the purpose of the name when you create a new Struct?

From the docs:

dog = Struct.new("Dog", :name, :age)

Can you reference something via the name "Dog"?



Also, are frozen arrays suitable for dictionary keys?

Will the second [1,2] always dereference properly?

 { [1,2].freeze => "test" }[[1,2]]

I know that if you don't freeze the key and then change it, apparently
you can't access the value via the key at all anymore. 


thanks,
Wes.