From: Dominik Bathon <dbatml@...>
Date: 2005-06-07T01:44:39+09:00
Subject: A little Quiz

First of all, this is no attempt to rival with James' nice Ruby Quiz ;-)

I came up with a nice new(?) use for method_missing today.
Now it is your job to figure out what you can do with it.
(My hope is that someone will find nice uses for this, that I didn't think  
of)

So here is the code:

class Array
     def method_missing(meth, *args, &block)
         rmeth = (meth.to_s =~ /\A_x_(.*)/ ? $1.to_sym : meth)
         if block
             if empty?
                 []
             else
                 mm_block_rec(rmeth, 0, res=[], [], *args, &block)
                 res
             end
         else
             res=[]
             each_with_index { |el, i|
                 res << el.send(rmeth, *(args.collect { |el|
                     (Array === el) ? el[i] : el
                 }))
             }
             res
         end
     end

     private

     def mm_block_rec(rmeth, i, res, bargs, *args, &block)
         myargs=args.collect { |el| (Array === el) ? el[i] : el }
         res[i] = self[i].send(rmeth, *myargs) { |*ba|
             bargs[i]=(ba.size==1 ? ba.first : ba)
             if i==size-1
                 block.call(*bargs)
             else
                 mm_block_rec(rmeth, i+1, res, bargs, *args, &block)
             end
         }
     end
end


And some questions:

What does it do?

What can it be used for?

Has this been done before? (I couldn't find anything.)

Do you like it?


Dominik