From: Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T05:22:32+09:00
Subject: Re: multiple blocks (unfold)

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:03:32AM +0900, mental@rydia.net wrote:
> Quoting Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net>:
> 
> > Usage:
> >
> >  a = Unfolder.stop? { |s| s > 10 }.f { |s| s * 2 }.g { |s| s + 1
> > }.unfold(0)
> >
> 
> Hey, that's not too bad.  Use the named parameter idiom from Java.
> 
> It's a little weird from a Ruby perspective, but except for being
> (essentially) curried it's rather like the way you'd do it in
> Smalltalk.

I wrote up a small metaprogramming library back in the spring which
adds this syntax to Ruby classes/modules in an (IMHO) convenient way:

http://creo.hu/~csaba/ruby/multiblocks/

Csaba