From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-05-17T03:46:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Forwardable, reworked

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Florian Gro�
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:35 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Forwardable, reworked
> 
> 
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
> > A while back I mentioned that there were warnings
> > coming from the Forwardable module.  Because I would
> > like to use it with another project I'm working on, I
> > decided to refactor it (attached).
> > 
> > Please let me know what you think.
> 
> Nice work! I wonder if you could also add a nicer interface while you 
> are here enhancing things. I'd like to do this:
> 
> class Foo
>    extend Forwardable
> 
>    delegate :to_i => :@number
>    delegate [:to_s, :reverse] => :@string
> 
>    def initialize
>      @number = 5
>      @string = "foobar"
>    end
> end

That *does* look nicer.  We should keep the older methods around for backwards compatability, though, unless folks don't care.  I don't get the impression that many people are using this. :)

Regards,

Dan