From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2002-06-08T08:56:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Struct :symbol vs 'string' difference

In article <1023368547.798268.23822.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>, Yukihiro
Matsumoto wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "Struct :symbol vs 'string' difference"
>    on 02/06/06, Tim Sutherland <timsuth@ihug.co.nz> writes:
>|
>|ruby 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [i586-linux]
>|
>|Bar = Struct.new('Bar', :a, :b, :c)
>|Bar.new(1, 2, 3) -> #<Struct::Bar a=1, b=2, c=3>
>|
>|Foo = Struct.new(:Foo, :a, :b, :c)
>|Foo.new(1, 2, 3) -> #<Foo Foo=1, a=2, b=3, c=nil>
>|
>|I'm wondering why there is this difference, which I found surprising.
>
>If the first argument to the "new" is a string, it will be the name of
>the Struct class (as in Struct::Bar).  It's by the historical reason.
>Ruby did not allow unnamed class before.

Thanks for the explanation.