From: Jim Bob <invalid@...>
Date: 2003-01-13T03:29:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Instance vars as arguments to initialize()?

In article <3E20FCF6.8030405@chadfowler.com>, Chad Fowler wrote:
> Another fun little Ruby-ism is that you could use "Struct" as a shortcut 
> for constructing the initializer as in the following example:
> 
>====BEGIN====
> Blah = Struct.new("Blah", :a, :b, :c)
> 
> class Blah
>   def extra_method
>     puts "Here's some non-instance-var behaviour"
>   end
> end
> 
> x = Blah.new("Hello World",Math::PI,["an", "array", "of", "strings"])
> x.extra_method  #=> prints "Here's some non-instance-var behaviour"
> puts x.a  #=> prints "Hello World"
>====END====
> 
> Chad
> 

Very nice. I didn't even know the Struct class existed. Got to crack the
books more often!