From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2004-02-15T11:59:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash like JS Hash (code)

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 02:47:07 +0000, Tim Sutherland wrote:

> 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

Also the OpenStruct class. Check out ostruct.rb.