From: Steven Lumos <steven@...>
Date: 2008-09-26T08:22:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18963] Re: [RCR] $ABOUT.ts

"Laurent Sansonetti" <laurent.sansonetti@gmail.com> writes:
> This is a very nice idea.
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> Laurent

Can $ABOUT._why be an array?

Steve

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:57 AM, _why <why@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>> I don't want to be indelicate and we can address this some other
>> time.  Maybe a good place for an easter egg would be as a virtual
>> global variable.  Global vars are a rather open namespace and if we
>> kept the code in C none of the strings here would be allocated until
>> needed.  I think ts would appreciate that efficiency, perhaps?
>>
>> Anyway, what do you think about an $ABOUT with a singleton?
>>
>>  $ABOUT = %{"Maybe because Ruby is a mansion, a backdoor is bigger than you expect."\n  - matz}
>>  def $ABOUT.ts
>>    %{"I know nothing, I just ask ruby what it do."\n  - Guy Decoux (1955 - 2008)}
>>  end
>>
>> From [ruby-talk:20662] and [ruby-talk:5795], respectively.
>>
>> In ruby.c, this becomes:
>>
>>  static VALUE
>>  rb_about_ts(VALUE self)
>>  {
>>    return rb_str_new2("\"I know nothing, I just ask ruby what it do.\"\n  - Guy Decoux (1955 - 2008)");
>>  }
>>
>>  static VALUE
>>  rb_about()
>>  {
>>    VALUE about = rb_str_new2("\"Maybe because Ruby is a mansion, a backdoor is bigger than you expect.\"\n  - matz");
>>    rb_define_singleton_method(about, "ts", rb_about_ts, 0);
>>    return about;
>>  }
>>
>> Then, in ruby_prog_init:
>>
>>  rb_define_virtual_variable("$ABOUT", rb_about, 0);
>>
>> _why
>>
>>