From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-02-15T11:49:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash like JS Hash (code)

In article <8hvXb.37945$uV3.63269@attbi_s51>, Gavin Kistner wrote:
>Although I may never use it, I thought I'd share the following 
>experiment. I find mildly frustrating the need to type:
>myHash['foo']
>to access a property of my hash, when for strings
>myHash.foo
>seems perfectly logical. (At least to me, coming from JavaScript.)
[...]
>x = { 'name'=>'Gavin', 'age'=>31 }
>x.weight = 171
>x.feet = ['left','right']
>puts x.name , x.weight , x.foo , x.inspect
[...]

Are you familiar with the `Struct` class?

Person = Struct.new(:name, :weight, :age, :feet)

gavin = Person.new('Gavin', 171, 31, ['left', 'right'])
gavin.name # -> 'Gavin'
gavin.weight # -> 171
gavin.age += 31 # -> 32


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