From: Ryan Lewis <c00lryguy@...>
Date: 2008-01-16T15:02:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Returning with methods

Gary Wright wrote:
> 
> It does.  Try
> 
> myusr.inspect.class
> 
> The problem is that IRB has to write that object to stdout so
> Array#to_s gets called on the array returned by inspect.
> 
> It is probably a bad idea to break the convention that inspect
> returns a string.
> 
> Gary Wright

Well, what I'm basically trying to figure out is how to change the a 
class into another class. Heres my new struct.rb:
  #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  class Hash
     def to_struct(struct_name)
        Struct.new(struct_name,*keys).new(*values)
     end
   end

  class User
    def initialize(sn, pw, dob)
      vars = {:screenname => sn,
              :password   => pw,
              :dob        => Time.parse(dob),
              :join_date  => Time.now,
              :age        => Time.now.year - Time.parse(dob).year}
      return vars.to_struct("User")
    end
  end

Now when I call User.new, I want it to turn the User class into the 
'vars' Structure
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