From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-08-23T04:25:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Callback for instance var creation?

On Sunday 22 August 2004 02:55 pm, Florian Gross wrote:
> Actually I think the best way to do this would be like this:
>
>    obj = Object.new
>    obj.method(:foo) = self.method(:puts)
>    obj.foo(5)

Not sure how that provides 1st class methods. The idea is to be able to store 
state in methods and give them singletons, etc. For instance:

  def ameth
    puts Time.now
  end

  # if ameth were a first class object
  def ameth.tag
    :log
  end

Calling method(:ameth) doesn't work because it creates a new method object 
everytime and therefore looses state. Plus it is overly verbose.

There have been other suggested notations like:
  
  ::meth
  \meth

-- 
T.