From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T03:20:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Injecting methods from one class into another.


"George Moschovitis" <george.moschovitis@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1106671017.848252.287620@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

> Can anyone give me an example, where this #bind method is usefull? I
> mean,  you can only bind a Method back to an object of the original
> method's Class or a Subclass. But such an object allready has this
> method, so whats the point?
> Am I missing something here?

Hm, maybe for caching:

@cached = lengthy_process_that_returns_an_unbound_method()

....

def treat(obj)
  @cached.bind(obj).call
end

Dunno whether that's more efficient than just remembering the symbol and
invoking the method via send...

Kind regards

    robert