From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T10:46:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom -- is there a better way?

On Oct 20, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Mark Probert wrote:
>   class Foo
>     def bar(fn)
>       eval "self.#{fn}"
>     end
>   end
>
>   class Bar < Foo
>     def blah
>       puts "blah here"
>     end
>   end
>
>   f = Bar.new
>   f.bar("blah")

Does the function need to be a string argument?

f.bar( f.method( :blah ) ) # Pass the actual method reference

or, as others have noted:

class Foo
	def bar( meth_name )
		self.method(m).call
	end
end
...
f.bar( :blah )