From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2004-08-02T08:26:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Forward references?

Mark Hubbart <discord@mac.com> writes:

> [ ... ]
>
> One other way is to use blocks:
>
> # code that does this:
> def chunk(&block) ($CHUNKS||=[]) << block end
> END{ $CHUNKS.reverse_each{|ch| ch[] } }
> # end special code :)
>
> chunk do
>
>    x = foo()
>    y = bar()
>    puts x
>    puts y
>    exit(0)
>
> end
>
> chunk do
>
>    def foo
>      return "foo"
>    end
>
>    def bar
>      return "bar"
>    end
>
> end
>
> Of course, you'd name it something other than chunk. And there's probly
> a one liner for it, too, but I didn't have enough time to clean it up
> much.

This is probably a bit hard to maintain due to its not-so-obvious
algorithm.  But it's clever!

Thank you very much.


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