From: Ross Bamford <rosco@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T07:18:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Repost: singleton methods vs. class instance vars

Ahem, sorry.

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:09:09 -0000, I forgot to write:

>
> Seems to me the technique is about one-time creation of attribute  
> accessors that, instead of looking like:
>

	def name
	  @name
	end

look like this:

> 	def name
> 	  "name"
> 	end
>
> Which, when called multiple times, may be faster than equivalent  
> instance variable lookups. My *guess* is that this is probably a bit  
> quicker with symbols and maybe strings (which is what this seems to be  
> using - notice the 'inspect' too) than going for an instance var.
>
> ?
>

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk