Using Tuples in Ruby?

Question

Does anyone use tuples in Ruby? If so, how may one implement a tuple? Ruby hashes are nice and work almost as well, but I\'d really like to see something like the Tuple clas

Answer 1

While this isn't strictly a tuple (can't do dot notation of members), you can assign a list of variables from a list, which often will solve issues with ruby being pass-by-value when you are after a list of return values.

E.g.

:linenum > (a,b,c) = [1,2,3]
:linenum > a
  => 1
:linenum > b
  => 2
:linenum > c
  => 3