From: Sascha Ebach <se@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T19:18:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help with with Binding.of_caller

Thanks for the fast response Florian.

Florian Gro� wrote:
> Perhaps you can make interpolate a method on Kernel -- then you would be 
> able to do interpolate(@foo) and the self of the interpolate method and 
> the one of the caller would always be the same thus avoiding the whole 
> situation. Does this sound reasonable?

I am not sure anymore if it is worth going through all the trouble. The 
whole solution is a little evally. First it is a little hard to 
understand, like you say yourself. Next there is the question of 
performance. As I understand eval is not very fast. And this is a method 
which is potentially being called very often. A Binding.of_caller 
solution would certainly be the most elegant, but faster and more 
reliable would be if the method would just do some stringfy thing.

_i('%s whine', @color)

or maybe to further simplify

_i(':color_of whine', :color_of => @color)

which should be easier to work with (but less flexible) for the translators.

_Since I am not the author of the ri18n, he seems to be on a vacation at 
the moment, I have to wait and talk to him first. But I am going to 
suggest using the above instead of the eval magic. Unless of course some 
of the real wizards come up with a magical and fast solution. Chances 
are slim I guess.

Let's see.

Sascha Ebach