From: Mikael Brockman <mikael@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T07:31:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Putting some code out to DRY

Mauricio Fern�ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:25:30AM +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
> > 
> > Notice the three lines of duplication. Any ideas on DRYing this up?
> >     
> >     def each
> >       seed = @start
> 
> Am I the only one who sometimes does things resembling
> 	  whatever = lambda do
>            yield(seed)
>            @skip.times { seed = seed.succ }
>            break if @halt.call(seed) if @halt
>       end
> and then whatever[]   ??

Nope.  I do that all the time.  I also often do stuff like

class Foo
  define_thing = lambda do |id, y|
    define_method x do |z|
      do_some_stuff z, y
      do_some_other_stuff z, y
    end
  end

  define_thing.call :foo
  define_thing.call :bar
  define_thing.call :baz
end