From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T01:11:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Struct constructor

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:05:44 +0900, Wayne Magor <wemagor2@gmail.com> wrote:

> So how is [] defined in Ruby?  Just curious.  It must be a special-case.

It's just a singleton method on the class object; "[]" is a valid method name.

 joe = Customer.send(:[], "Joe Smith", "123 Maple, Anytown NC", 12345)

You can define a #[] method on anything.

-mental