From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-09-06T10:51:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Extend OpenStruct's functionality with explicit default value

From: ara.t.howard [mailto:ara.t.howard@gmail.com] 
# why not simply
# 
#    o = OpenStruct.new :foo => 0

because that would mean knowing in advanced the vars and mentioning them, wc loses the dynamism of ostruct

compare to 

   o = OpenStruct.new(0)

unknown/new attribs will be initialized to 0 as compared to default nil


kind regards -botp