From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T04:43:48+09:00
Subject: Re: is defined? fast?

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:46:01 +0900, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
> Looks like the simple var check is better performance wise.  Personally I
> never felt the need for defined? - only during my initial Ruby stages,
> when I carried some Perl thinking with me; but never after I got rid of
> that. :-)

I now use it like this:

  unless defined?(Text)
    module Text; end
  end

  class Text::Format
    ...
  end

Saves me some indentation levels and keeps the code readable and working.

-austin
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