From: avi.bryant@... (Avi Bryant)
Date: 2004-11-15T23:13:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] MinDI: Minimalist Dependency Injection

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

> The example from Jim Weirich's article would look like this in MinDI:
> 
>    class JWApplicationContainer
>      extend MinDI::Container
> 
>      logfilename { "logfile.log" }

>      quotes        { StockQuotes.new(error_handler, logger) }

>    end

Forgive me for being dense, but once you've gone this far, is there
any particular reason not to simply write:

class JWApplicationContainer
  def logfilename() "logfile.log"; end
  
  ...

  def quotes
     @quotes ||= StockQuotes.new(error_handler, logger)
  end

  ...
end

and so on?  I think the win in simplicity probably outweighs the extra
few characters you have to type...

Avi