Description

The union library is the Ruby analog of a C union.

Installation

rake test (optional)
rake install (standard) or rake install_gem (rubygems)

Synopsis

require 'union'

Union.new('Human', :name, :age, :height)
h = Union::Human.new

# Only one attribute of the union may be set
h.name = 'Daniel' # => #<struct Union::Human name="Daniel", age=nil>
h.age  = 38       # => #<struct Union::Human name=nil, age=38>

Known issues or bugs

None that I’m aware of. Please report any bugs you find on the project page at www.rubyforge.org/projects/shards

License

Artistic 2.0

Warranty

This package is provided “as is” and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Author

• Daniel J. Berger