On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Jim Weirich <jim.weirich / gmail.com> wrote:
> I see both sides, but I think I still lean slightly toward a lightweight
> Parameter class.  Returning things ordered positionally[1] in an array seems
> more like the FORTRAN way than the Ruby way.

I reiterate my suggestion to return a positional array of hashes. ;)

I think that the array is too brittle (it's not self-describing) and the
class is too heavyweight. The array solution suffers from an issue where
new descriptive elements have to be added to the end or you break older
programs. The only thing that seems to be better about a class rather
than a hash is that the class will describe the range of possibilities,
whereas the hash will just return what is.

-austin
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