From: Claude Brisson <claude@...>
Date: 2004-02-17T15:14:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash like JS Hash (code)

(second time I try to post... I did not see my post appear on the
newslist... I hope it is not redundant, otherwise please mail me the answer)

How would you achieve the same accesses with rexml elements, to access
subelements or attributes ?

I guess it's possible, but I'm still a ruby newbie...

CloD <claude@renegat.net>

"Gavin Kistner" <gavin@refinery.com> a �crit dans le message de
news:8hvXb.37945$uV3.63269@attbi_s51...
> Although I may never use it, I thought I'd share the following
> experiment. I find mildly frustrating the need to type:
> myHash['foo']
> to access a property of my hash, when for strings
> myHash.foo
> seems perfectly logical. (At least to me, coming from JavaScript.)
>
> So I wrote the following code, which catches any methods not available
> for hash and treats them like keys. (Thanks to memmove on #ruby-lang for
> the idea of allowing setters in addition to getters.)
>
>
>
> class Hash
>    def method_missing(meth,*args)
>      if /=$/=~(meth=meth.id2name) then
>        self[meth[0...-1]] = (args.length<2 ? args[0] : args)
>      else
>        self[meth]
>      end
>    end
> end
>
> x = { 'name'=>'Gavin', 'age'=>31 }
> x.weight = 171
> x.feet = ['left','right']
> puts x.name , x.weight , x.foo , x.inspect
>
> PRODUCES
>
> Gavin
> 171
> nil
> {"name"=>"Gavin", "weight"=>171, "feet"=>["left", "right"], "age"=>31}