From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T21:13:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Struct is cleverer than the documentation claims

On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:01 AM, Paul Butcher wrote:

> So, both of the following achieve broadly the same effect:
>
>> Customer = Struct.new(:name, :address) do
>>   def to_s
>>     "Customer called '#{name}' living at '#{address}'"
>>   end
>> end
>
>> class Customer < Struct.new(:name, :address)
>>   def to_s
>>     "Customer called '#{name}' living at '#{address}'"
>>   end
>> end
>
> Which leads to the question, what *are* the differences, and should I
> prefer one approach over the other?
>
> Thanks in advance for any light you can cast on this!

I too feel the block is better.

You can occasionally run into issues with the base class form.  For  
example, when Rails does it's reloading magic on a file containing  
such a construct you will receive an error.

James Edward Gray II