From: wannes <wannes@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T01:44:45+09:00
Subject: Re: object.["somepropertyOrmethod"] == object.somepropertyOrmethod ?

falcon wrote:
> Does Ruby allow javascript like invocation of methods (or access to
> properties) like this:
> someProperty = "nameOfStudent"
> Object[someProperty]

If i understand your question correctly, you could do something like
Object.send(someProperty, args)

> Also, is there a limit to how deep one can do recursion?  Recursion can
> easily cause stack overflow error in Java, but some languages don't
> have that problem (I guess it is called tail call optimization).

the short answer: it depends ;)
There has been a thread some time ago about the stack-size
http://rubyurl.com/Rb7CH [1]

grtz,
wannes

[1]
<http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/133981?133902-136516>