On: Some Mental Traps in Learning Ruby

[toisanji]

DataMapper, an ActiveRecord replacement where I am one of the coders,uses the same Person[1] syntax. Check it out sometime: http://datamapper.org/

[jamesbritt → toisanji]

It's been part of Og for a while, perhaps from the beginning.

There seems to be some Ruby communal understanding that the use of [x] should follow Array-ish behavior, but when used with a class constant it's apparent that this is not simply an array, and that some other sort of indexing is going on.