[jamesbritt]

That is insanely ugly. I will pass, thanks.

[richcollins]

Setters are composable and you can modify their behavior. Hash literals ... not so much.

It would seem you only see the surface beauty of things. [redacted -- good point]

[jamesbritt]

"It would seem you only see the surface beauty of things."

Is that how you defend an API? Insult the user?

Holy shit that's stupid.

[extension]

How about adding this to the Point class?

  def to_hash
    {:x => @x, :y => @y}
  end
  
  def to_ary
    [@x,@y]
  end

  def [] i
    case i
    when 0,:x
      @x
    when 1,:y
      @y
    end
  end

Should work if the receiving method interprets the arguments properly.