From: Jim Weirich <jim.weirich@...>
Date: 2009-02-26T05:18:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22499] Re: YASNP (Yet Another Selector Namespace  Proposal)


On Feb 25, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote:

> You end up needing to do:
>
> Extlib
> ::String
> .constantize(Extlib::String.to_path(Extlib::String.underscore(str)))
>
> instead of:
>
> str.underscore.to_path.constantize
>
> Honestly, we tried this in DataMapper for a while, but it got too  
> bulky to
> be realistic (outside of Java, I suppose).

Plus this technique wouldn't allow polymorphic methods based on the  
target's type.  That's a serious disadvantage.

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