From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-07-01T01:15:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Opinions on library interface design?

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 01:02:52 +0900, Ara.T.Howard wrote
 
> i was unaware - sounds super cool - i'll check it out today.

I have a couple of super stupid bugs in the current release at rubyforge.  
I'll release a slight update shortly that fixes them.  You can find some 
docs at:

http://enigo.com/projects/kansas

It can be downloaded at:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/kansas
 
> i like the idea of NOT using 'select' since, in essence these object 
> have not been 'selected' as our working set - we would only be 
> looking at them.  to me that suggests a completely new method name,
>  something like
> 
>    def browse criteria, as = Hash
>      cb = block_given?
>      accum = []
> 
>      query(criteria) do |intermediate|
>        res =
>          case as
>            when Hash
>              intermediate.to_h
>            when Array
>              intermediate.to_a
>            when Struct
>              intermediate.to_su
>            else
>              as.new intermediate
>          end
> 
>        cb ? yield res : accum << res
>      end
> 
>      cb ? self : accum
>    end
> 
> which provide some canned types to be returns and would provide user
> defineable types to be returned (case - else).

That's a good idea.  I like the method name, too.  I'm going to give this a 
whirl in some code I'm writing now.


Thanks,

Kirk Haines