From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2005-05-04T07:19:16+09:00
Subject: Re: I rock.


On May 3, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> Yup, rb_intern needs to be cached.  Yup, the __self thing is wrong (it 
> was late, and I forgot about NODE_SELF).  No, it doesn't let you 
> directly call C code either (yet?).
...
> $ cat f.c
> ...
> static VALUE
> rrc_cF_factorial(VALUE __self, VALUE n) {
> VALUE f;
> VALUE x;
> f = LONG2FIX(1);
> x = n;
> while (RTEST(rb_funcall(x, rb_intern(">="), 1, LONG2FIX(2)))) {
> f = rb_funcall(f, rb_intern("*"), 1, x);
> x = rb_funcall(x, rb_intern("-"), 1, LONG2FIX(1));
> };
> return f;

YAY! You do rock! And no, "__self" doesn't suck, but most of the C impl 
I've seen just calls it "self" straight up. This is really cool and I 
can't wait to read the code.