From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T22:56:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Method Definitions

Hi --

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:

> 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.

Search for "make def return something useful"


David

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