From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-01-13T06:34:54+09:00
Subject: Re: what's the rules re whether a Hash can use either a Symbol or String to reference the value???

Hi --

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Greg Hauptmann wrote:

> thanks guys - interesting question for the Rails guys is whether you have to
> explicitly ask for a HashWithIndifference,  i.e. just wondering whether it's
> possible in Rails to ask for a Hash but really get a monkey patched
> HashWithIndiffrence back without it being obvious...

HashWithIndifferentAccess is just a subclass of Hash. I don't think it
can be described as monkey patched, though I'm never sure what that
term means. Some methods return instances of it; some return instances
of Hash.


David

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