From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T22:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Method Definitions

David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> 
>> Just a little curiosity: If method definitions (`def foo; end') were 
>> to return a symbol representing the method's name (`:foo' in this 
>> case) rather than just nil, would this be possible?
>>
>>  class Klass
>>    private def foo
>>      "Klass#foo"
>>    end
>>
>>    def bar
>>      "Klass#bar"
>>    end
>>  end
>>
>>  obj = Klass.new
>>  obj.bar -> "Klass#bar"
>>  obj.foo -> private method `foo' called...
> 
> Yes; I think that's one of the main things people who advocate this
> want to be able to do (just remembering [I think] from earlier
> discussions).
> 
> 
> David
> 

Could you point me to one of those discussions? I wonder why such a 
proposal was turned down.


Cheers,
Daniel