From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-15T00:52:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Challenging Project ... Need a deep guru to provide enlightenment.

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Jeff Wood wrote:

> On the way to work this morning, I even got it executing remote blocks ...
>
> so client code looks like:
>
> require 'roxy'
> obj = Roxy.new( "otherhost", 4242 )
> obj.func( [ 1, 2, 3 ] ) { |a| puts a }
>
> ... I just have to figure out how I'm going to deal with syntax that is
> multi-layered...
>
> blah.call.call2.call3
>
> with how I have things now, blah.call would be run proxied, but .call2.call3
> would be run locally on the result of the first call.
>
> Anyways, that's about the only issue I have left to work out... I'll post
> soon, better to post early than not at all ;)


something recursive like

   obj.class.instance_methods.each do |m|
     module_eval <<-code
       def #{ m } *a, &b
         Roxy::new( send "#{ m }", *a, &b )
       end
     code
   end

so, every return value of Roxy must, itself, be a Roxy.

this sounds very nice.

-a
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