Re: Collections of structured-data objects: what approach?

Graham Wideman wrote:
Robert:

Thanks, and...

You're welcome!

Right. You got it. That's what OO is about.

Well, I already had the OO part, just needed the ruby version of it :-) plus connecting the dots might help others stumbling along this way, and you never know it might turn out that your "consistency" comment was referring to something else I didn't see.

I probably should have put "encapsulation" somewhere in that posting. :-) Anyway, I'm glad I could help sort these things out.

Anyhow, this discussion has been most helpful to alert me to all the capabilities that Array has, and calibrating my sense that a little bit of assembly required to implement collections with various features, they're not just in some library that "of course" everyone knows about and uses :-)

Yeah, the reason is probably that Array and Hash are so powerful on the one hand and that requirements are so different on the other hand. Java follows a tad different approach by providing collections for usual situations.

Kind regards

robert
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